A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing

Evan Koblentz evan at snarc.net
Fri Jul 3 20:07:46 CDT 2009


> Up to about 1960, most (all?) computers were vacuum tubes.
There were a few transistor computers from the military, etc. .... there 
was also RECOMP, which was a commercially available computer weighing 
just 200 lbs. from Autonetics in 1958.  I don't know much about its 
internals but I assume it used transistors to be that small.


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