It's not commonly known about the 40s period when Stanford U. was known as "The Farm." But afterwards ... the military was the only customer for $10 transistor

It's not commonly known about the 40s period when Stanford U. was known as "The Farm." But afterwards ... the military was the only customer for $10 transistors in the 50s, there's like 100 Superfund sites with plume vents, and the Blue Cube was only recently torn down.