Consider the Regency TR-1, the first transistor radio from TI and IDEA ... $441 (a new car cost about $1,700 and a copy of life magazine cost 20 cents). Even at that price, they sold about ...

They had to catch the attention of the public. That happened with the hand-held radio. The first transistor radio was a joint project between the Regency Division of Industrial Development ...

A handheld AM or FM radio. All handheld radios, as well as desktop radios, use transistors, both discrete as well as contained in chips. The transistor radio was one of the first consumer devices ...

That’s from before the time most of us were born and not many years after the invention of the transistor in late ... transmitter design in a vintage Radio magazine from the late ’50’s ...