Sperry Rand's transistor computers

Geoffrey Gray, Roger D. Smith · IEEE Annals of the History of Computing · 1998

Sperry Rand Corporation was an early entry in the computer industry through its acquisitions of Engineering Research Associates and Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. It produced some of the first transistor computers for military applications, but it experienced great difficulty in producing transistor computers for the general-purpose computing market. The paper describes the major transistor computers Sperry Rand developed.

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