RCA's First Commercial Junction Transistors Lucite Block Paperweight (1953) Calculators polished plastic brick

polished plastic brick

focusing entirely on a clean "slab of glass" look with a distinct

introduced in 1935

While the base model started at $1

Although production of this classic mechanical model wrapped up in 1983

RCA's First Commercial Junction Transistors Lucite Block Paperweight (1953) Calculators polished plastic brickRCA 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