CBS - HYRTRON Semiconductor Collectibles
CBS - HYTRON Memorabilia
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​Company: CBS - HYTRON, a division of Columbia Broadcasting System , Inc. (CBS)
Based: Salem, Massachusetts
Founded: 1921
Founders: Lloyd and Bruce Coffin, as Hytron Radio and Electronics Co.
Specialty: Manufacturer of television vacuum tubes during the late 1940's, and transistors in the 1950s, and became part of the CBS broadcasting company in 1951, lasting as a company until 1961.





CBS-HYTRON 2N36 Transistor from IBM core memory computer in development (1953)

IBM early transistor core memory 1950s
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​This acrylic display was given to IBM 100 percent club members in 1953.

This item features an early model # 2N36 Germanium PNP Alloy Junction transistor manufactured for IBM by CBS-HYTRON, and a single core memory donut. 

​There is a diagram of a circuit schematic showing the placement of the core memory and the transistor used between the core drive and the output.