Talk:Traitorous Eight

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I always heard this group referred to as the "Fairchildren", an obviously more positive name. There seems no middle ground, and I do not know the attribution of either term. How to resolve this? - Gnetwerker 08:03, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Shockley called them the traitorours eight; as far as the other terms, you'd have to dig. Raul654 12:53, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Fairchildren refers to the spinoff companies from Fairchild, not the men who founded Fairchild. Google "fairchildren" and the results are pretty consistent. JoelWest 22:25, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

"(Naively, Shockley envisioned the operation of the Laboratory as if the researchers were the Knights of the Round Table and he were King Arthur.IEEE Spectrum)" This does not give any useful information (King Arthur is seen in very different ways), is mysterious at its best and POV at its worst, and the "IEEE Spectrum" note is just incomprehensible. --Oop 10:26, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Even worse, it doesn't appear to exist. A search on http://ieeexplore.ieee.org of the 23 articles in IEEE Spectrum that mention "Shockley" shows nothing of the sort. JoelWest 22:25, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Well, I worked with some of these people, and the original version is correct. I have reverted your changes and provided a reference. It was trivial to find. -- Gnetwerker 22:47, 17 March 2006 (UTC)