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...nothing in common. With Dad everything was precision, accuracy, "bead-on." He had the fastest slide rule in Arizona and spoke two languages: English and Computer. When I was about eleven, my dad came home and gathered us all in the kitchen. He held up a tiny little transistor he had brought home and said, "This is the future." I took the transistor from his hand, and I put it in my mouth. And I swallowed it. Dad laughed, then he didn't laugh; it got very tense. It was like the confrontation scene between Raymond Massey and James Dean...
Indian intelligence officials suggested last week that the latest wave of terrorism was being conducted under a unified command, and charged that given the sophistication of the onslaught, some of the terrorists were "foreign trained." Most of the explosive devices used in the attacks were hidden in transistor radios casually left in public places. Unsuspecting passersby picked them up and turned them on--and then the bombs exploded. Eyewitnesses said that shortly before the blasts in the terminal, a Sikh had boarded the bus, left a radio on a seat and got off just before departure time; similar accounts were...
...intercepted his Mercedes to deliver a message: "There's been an accident in the house. Return immediately to Delhi." Instantly, Rajiv told his aides to rush to the nearest airport. At 12:30 p.m., while Rajiv waited for a helicopter to take him to Calcutta, he switched on his transistor radio to hear the BBC relay the news that his mother was in critical condition. Some of the Congressmen in his party burst into tears, but Rajiv told them, "Don't worry. She's tough...
...edging onto center stage. By 1975 he was dispensing orders in his mother's name, popping up on posters next to his mother and initiating a series of unpopular schemes. These included his notorious program of forced sterilization, whereby those who submitted to vasectomies were rewarded with tinny transistor radios...
Although barred from selling computers before the breakup, the company for more than 30 years has been developing and building them for telephone-call switching, billing and other internal needs. In 1947 scientists at A T& T's Bell Laboratories invented the transistor, which laid the foundation for microchips. The company also created the UNIX computer operating system, which has been licensed to more than 2,200 businesses, universities and government agencies in the U.S. and ten other countries since the early...