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List of transistorized computers

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This is a list of digital computers using discrete transistors as their primary logic elements, also known as transistorized computers. Transistors were a feature of logic design for computers from about 1960, when reliable transistors became economically available, until hybrid and monolithic integrated circuits displaced them in the 1970s. The list is organized by operational date or delivery year to customers. Computers announced, but never completed, are not included. Some very early "transistor" computers may still have included vacuum tubes in the power supply or for auxiliary functions.

Contents

1950s

1953

  • University of Manchester Transistor computer 1953 (prototype) 1955 (full scale) experimental
  • 1954

  • Bell Labs TRADIC for U.S. Air Force
  • IBM 608 transistor calculator, demonstrated October 1954, announced 1955, first shipped Dec 1957
  • 1955

  • Harwell CADET demonstrated February 1955, one off scientific computer
  • 1956

  • MIT TX-0
  • Electrotechnical Laboratory ETL Mark III (Japan) experimental
  • Metrovick 950
  • 1957

  • Burroughs SM-65 Atlas ICBM Guidance Computer MOD1, AN/GSQ-33 (no relation to Manchester ATLAS)
  • Ramo-Wooldridge (TRW) RW-30 airborne computer
  • NCR 304
  • Philco Transac S-1000 scientific computer- Navy/NSA SOLO, one-off for NSA
  • Philco Transac S-2000 electronic data processing computer
  • Univac TRANSTEC, for US Navy
  • Univac ATHENA, US Air Force missile guidance (ground control)
  • 1958

  • Electrologica X1
  • TX-2
  • UNIVAC Solid State ("mostly" solid state)
  • Ferranti Argus
  • Mailüfterl
  • RCA 501 intended as a commercial system but used in military applications
  • 1959

  • Olivetti Elea 9003
  • MOBIDIC
  • IBM 7090
  • IBM 1401
  • IBM 1620 Model I and successors IBM 1620 Model II
  • NEAC 2201 (NEC)
  • EMIDEC 1100
  • TRW RW-300
  • PDP-1
  • Siemens System 2002
  • Standard Elektrik Lorenz SEL ER56
  • 1960s

    1960

  • Honeywell 200
  • UNIVAC LARC
  • CDC 1604
  • CDC 160A
  • Datasaab D2
  • DRTE Computer experimental
  • Elliott 803
  • AN/FSQ-32 (IBM 4020)
  • AN/FSQ-31V
  • IBM 7070
  • University of Tokyo KDO-1
  • Japan Electrotechnical Laboratory ETL Mark 5,
  • Mitsubishi MELCOM 3409
  • Monroe Calculating Machine Mark XI (or "Monrobot XI")
  • 1961

  • Plessey xL4
  • MANIAC III
  • CAB500
  • LEO III
  • English Electric KDP10
  • Bendix G-20
  • NEC NEAC 2205
  • Fujitsu FACOM 222
  • IBM 7030 Stretch
  • Zuse Z23
  • IBM 7080
  • IBM 1710
  • Packard Bell 250 (no relation to the modern brand of personal computers, controller for hybrid digital/analog system)
  • Matsushita MADIC IIA
  • TRW-130 aka AN/UYK-1 for Transit submarine navigation satellite receivers
  • 1962

  • Philco 212
  • Atlas Computer (Manchester)
  • ASC-15
  • ICT 1301
  • ILLIAC II
  • UNIVAC 1107
  • UMC 10
  • IBM 7094
  • Autonetics D-17B
  • Regnecentralen GIER
  • Telefunken TR4
  • RW-400 aka AN/FSQ-27 by TRW
  • SDS 910
  • SDS 920
  • 1963

  • Librascope LGP-21
  • IBM 7040 and IBM 7044
  • CDC 3000 series
  • CDC 3600 1963
  • CDC 3200 1964
  • CDC 3400,3800 1965
  • CDC 3100,3300 1965
  • Elliott 503
  • Ferranti-Packard 6000
  • Ferranti Argus 300
  • GE-200 series
  • UNIVAC 418
  • PDP-6
  • SDS 9300
  • BESM 3M, 4 circa 1963
  • Siemens 3003
  • 1964

  • IBM 7094 II
  • Model 109
  • GE-400 series
  • English Electric KDF8
  • English Electric KDF9
  • SDS 925
  • SDS 930
  • CDC 6600
  • Titan (computer) (Atlas 2)
  • Ural (computer) 11, 14
  • Bunker-Ramo BR-133 aka AN/UYK-3
  • 1965

  • GE-600 series (some integrated circuits)
  • NCR 315-RMC
  • PDP-8
  • IBM M44/44X
  • IBM 1130 IBM's least-expensive computer at that time
  • SDS 940
  • TRASK, transistor version of BESK[5][6][7]
  • 1966

  • D4a built by Joachim Lehmann at the TU Dresden
  • 1967

  • CDC 6400
  • CER-22
  • 1968

  • PDP-10 (first model only - later versions used ICs)
  • SDS 945
  • BESM 6 (first model only - later versions used ICs)
  • Moscow Power Engineering Institute M-54
  • References

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