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What group did you first
join? Who was in the group and what was the work?
As noted above, I was a Jr.
Engineer in the Applications department. There were two other engineers and
three technicians, and of course Andy who had been employed at the MIT
Radiation Lab and knew all about Klystrons and Magnetrons but not much
about transistors. None of us had transistor expertise and in a way that
was fortunate as we had no pre-conceived notions what the critters could
do. So we all learned by doing.
The Applications group did more
than experiment with basic circuit designs. We were charged with determining
how the transistors behaved under temperature ranges and humidity
conditions (we built our own humidity chamber). We did final test and
sorted the devices by current gain, frequency and voltage limits. We did
the same to competitive devices whenever we could obtain some. We also had
to design and wind coils and transformers as all the off the shelf stuff
were suitable to work with vacuum tubes.
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