First Fully Transistorized Computer
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Today in 1955, AT&T Bell Laboratories announced the completion of the first fully transistorized computer, TRADIC (transistorized airborne digital computer).
Bell Labs’ engineer Jean Howard Felker started in 1951 to develop TRADIC for the United States Air Force. M. M. Irvine in "Early Digital Computers at Bell Telephone Laboratories," IEEE Annals of the…
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