Christie's auction and other computer history events

[Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner]

It was thus said that the Great William Donzelli once stated:
> 
> > Without radar there would have been no electronic computers.
> 
> I don't know about that. Certainly digital electronics got a huge boost
> from radar technology (all those 6SN7GTs...), but I think someone would
> have tried to get rid of relays at some point (probably the telco folks), 
> and computers would have followed.

  Hmm ... Bell Labs *did* produce the transistor ... 

  -spc (Perhaps there's some truth in that ... )