RCA's First Commercial Junction Transistors Lucite Block Paperweight (1953) Calculators It marked GE's bold move

It marked GE's bold move into using modern metal vacuum tubes instead of traditional glass ones

polished plastic brick

Although production of this classic mechanical model wrapped up in 1983

launched in January 2005 for $99

it helped transition video games from a high-tech novelty into a permanent fixture of the American living room

RCA's First Commercial Junction Transistors Lucite Block Paperweight (1953) Calculators It marked GE's bold moveRCA Transistors Memento Two of the First Commercial Junction Transistors, RCA's First Commercially Released Transistors The 1953 RCA transistor Lucite block is a legendary "holy grail" for technology collectors, originally handed out as a high end memento at a pivotal RCA commercial transistor conference in March of that year. At a time when bulky, fragile glass vacuum tubes still powered all electronics, this paperweight served as a physical