I would take that bet, too. If you say “transistor” to non-technical people over 50 or so, they more likely would think of small portable radios (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_radio). To them, and many others, computers don’t have transistors, they have chips.
They _might_ know the transistor replaced vacuum tubes, but I doubt many would be able to tell what function either had, or be able to point out the transistors inside such a radio.
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.
They _might_ know the transistor replaced vacuum tubes, but I doubt many would be able to tell what function either had, or be able to point out the transistors inside such a radio.
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