Philco was one of the pioneers of transistorized computers, also known as second generation computers. After the company developed the surface barrier...
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Philco (an acronym for Philadelphia Battery Company) is an American electronics manufacturer headquartered in Philadelphia. Philco was a pioneer in battery...
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large-scale all-transistor computers; they were announced in 1957 but did not ship until sometime after the fall of 1958. The Philco computer name "Transac" stands...
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transistor that was suitable for high-speed computers. Philco developed and produced a miniature transistorized computer called the "Transac" (models C-1000 and...
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This is a list of transistorized computers, which were digital computers that used discrete transistors as their primary logic elements. Discrete transistors...
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Mamram (section Fight against computer abuse)
of the IDF. Formed in 1959, the unit acquired its first computer, a US-made Philco computer TRANSAC S-2000 mainframe Model 211 installed in 1961. Prior...
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TX-0 (redirect from Transistorized Experimental computer zero)
incorporated around 3,600 Philco high-frequency surface-barrier transistors, the first transistor suitable for high-speed computers. The TX-0 and its direct...
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sign-magnitude binary computers, and ones' complement binary computers, although Philco, RCA, and Honeywell, for example, had some computers that were character-based...
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vision system display was similar to the Philco system. Ivan Sutherland's breakthrough was to imagine a computer to supply graphics output to the viewing...
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Magnavox (category Defunct computer companies of the United States)
subsidiary the following year. Philips acquired the similar-sounding company Philco in 1981, and Philips was able to freely use the Philips name, alternating...
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constitute personal computers (including desktop computers, portable computers, laptops, all-in-ones, and more), mainframe computers, minicomputers, servers...
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History of compiler construction (category History of computer science)
ALTAC, was available on the Philco 2000, so it is probable that a Fortran program was compiled for both IBM and Philco computer architectures in mid-1960...
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the Philco CXPQ, the Ferranti Orion, the Telefunken Rechner TR 440, the ICT 1301, and many other early transistor-based and vacuum tube computers used...
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Bendix G-20 (redirect from G-20 computer)
production status. Another feature of the G-21 system was its high-speed Philco "Scopes" system - when punched cards or Teletype Model 33 ASRs were the...
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Saul Rosen (category American computer scientists)
1991) was an American computer science pioneer. He is known for designing the software of the first transistor-based computer Philco Transac S-2000, and...
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MOS Technology 6502 (redirect from 6502 architecture computer)
8-bit computers, Acorn Atom, BBC Micro, VIC-20 and other designs both for home computers and business, such as Ohio Scientific and Oric computers. The...
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Mordechai Kikayon (category Israeli computer scientists)
transliterated as Mordechai Kikion) (1915–1993) was one of the founders of the computer industry of Israel, the organizer and first head of Mamram. Before and...
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basis for home computers, microcomputers (micros) and personal computers (PCs). This led to the start of what is known as the personal computer revolution...
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engineering in World War II.) None of the major radio makers including RCA, GE, Philco, and Emerson were interested. The President of I.D.E.A. at the time, Ed...
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communications network. In the ASCs; operational until the late 1980s the Philco-Ford OL9 computers were still in use with periodic technological updates. In the...
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IBM 7090 (category IBM transistorized computers)
The 7090 is the fourth member of the IBM 700/7000 series scientific computers. The first 7090 installation was in December 1959. In 1960, a typical...
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Bendix Corporation (redirect from Bendix Computer)
aircraft and automobile fuel control systems, radios, televisions and computers. It was also well known for the name Bendix, as used on home clothes washing...
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in many anthology series in the early days of television, including The Philco Television Playhouse (on which she starred in Marty opposite Rod Steiger)...
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The Ford-Philco GAU-7/A was an abortive program initiated by United States Air Force in the late 1960s to develop a new cannon for the proposed F-14 ADC...
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developed and produced by Chrysler and Philco, was a $150 option on the 1956 Imperial automobile models. Philco began manufacturing this radio in the fall...
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Gideon Gartner (category American computer businesspeople)
for the Defense Communications Agency. In 1961 Philco sold the first large-scale transistorized computer to Israel’s Ministry of Defense, and sent Gartner...
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circuitry used three Philco germanium PNP alloy-fused junction audio frequency transistors. After the 1956 season had ended, Philco decided to discontinue...
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(1960). "Programming Computers to Play Games". In Alt, Franz L. (ed.). Advances in Computers Volume 1. Advances in Computers. Vol. 1. Elsevier. pp. 165–192...
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Fieldata (category Early computers)
computers were built during the lifetime of the project, including the transportable MOBIDIC from Sylvania, and the BASICPAC and LOGICPAC from Philco...
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7090, IBM 7040, UNIVAC 1107, UNIVAC 1108, Philco 210-211, and eventually IBM System/370 mainframe computers. Developed in 1959 at the University of Michigan...
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