1953 •
University of Manchester Transistor Computer 1953 (prototype) 1955 (full scale) experimental
1954 • Bell Labs
TRADIC for U.S. Air Force
1955 •
Harwell CADET demonstrated February 1955, one-off scientific computer
1956 • Electrotechnical Laboratory ETL Mark III (Japan) experimental, began development 1954, completed 1956, Japan's first transistorized
stored-program computer •
MIT TX-0 •
Metrovick 950 1957 •
Burroughs SM-65 Atlas ICBM Guidance Computer MOD1, AN/GSQ-33 (no relation to Manchester ATLAS) •
Ramo-Wooldridge (TRW) RW-30 airborne computer •
Univac TRANSTEC, for US Navy •
Univac ATHENA, US Air Force missile guidance (ground control) •
IBM 608 transistor calculator (its development was preceded by the prototyping of an experimental all-transistor version of the
604 demonstrated in October 1954), announced 1955, first shipped December 1957 •
DRTE Computer, Canadian experimental system delivered 1957, added parallel math unit and other improvements in 1960. • ETL Mark IV computer, upgraded to the ETL Mark IV A in 1958, a transistor-based computer built at the Japanese government's ElectroTechnical Laboratory, inspired almost every Japanese computer company.
1958 •
Electrologica X1 •
TX-2 •
UNIVAC Solid State (partially transistorized) •
Philco Transac S-1000 scientific computer- Navy/NSA SOLO, one-off for
NSA •
Philco Transac S-2000 electronic data processing computer •
Mailüfterl •
RCA 501 intended as a commercial system but used in military applications •
Siemens System 2002 – Prototype in operation since 1956, first machine was put in operation in 1958. •
Autonetics Recomp II 1959 •
NCR 304, announced in 1957, first delivery in 1959 •
Olivetti Elea 9003 •
Sylvania MOBIDIC •
IBM 7090 (6/60) •
IBM 1401 •
IBM 1620 Model I • NEAC 2201 (
NEC) •
EMIDEC 1100 •
TRW RW-300 •
PDP-1 •
Standard Elektrik Lorenz SEL ER 56 ==1960s==