Sunday, October 19, 2008

Computer Evolution and Performance Part 6


Transistors

  • Replacement vacuum tube.
  • More small. - More light.
  • Need more power low.
  • Solid State devices.
  • Made from Silicon Silicon (Sand).
  • Found in 1947 in Lab.Bell
  • William Shockley, et al.

Transistor Images


Transistor-Based Computers
  • Second-generation machine.
  • NCR & RCA create a small transistor machines.
  • IBM 7000 series.
  • DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation)
  • 1957
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