Is that a USA/North America thing, based on calling radio sets "transistor radios"?
Here in the UK we had "the wireless", and I'm confident that my parents - late 70s - who were the generation of first domestic computer ownership in the UK would associate "transistor" primarily with computers.
Here in the UK we had "the wireless", and I'm confident that my parents - late 70s - who were the generation of first domestic computer ownership in the UK would associate "transistor" primarily with computers.