But with a slight bang announced itself in 1955, the glorious river of the transistors: The experimental model Tradic the belonging to American Telephone and Telegraph Bell Laboratories, the first tentative step into the second generation. Three years later followed with the system Philco 2000-210, Autonetics, General Electric, NCR, and RCA. Univac, Bunker Ramo Corp.. and CDC also dashed with transistorized computers in the market before 1959 with the IBM 1620 and the 7090 slowly ventured to the new technological terrain.
Here, again, that technological advance is not a necessary condition for Market success. Only the 1960 data processing system installed IBM 1401 was the real sensation of the transistor time. The combination of punch-card systems, which are still populated the market, and the systematic replacement by the second generation decided the market in favor of IBM.
After she had burnt herself on the tubes fast fingers, the solid-state technology, the computer brought to work properly. It was the 1401 of the hit. Even today, seasoned IT professionals tears to the eyes when talking about the system. Nostalgia, which - as detractors claim - that's that 1401 was the last computer, which both IBM and users were still fully in control. French researchers IBM laboratory in Paris grabbed first the 1401 concept. They invented the logic that was implemented in Endicott in hardware.
sales made the system dfurch legs line with the market rent for equivalent power. In an international sales campaign, she took more and more from the tabulating machines. From 1401, more than 5000 systems have been installed. This seller brought IBM into such euphoria, from which she awoke with a swanky job "Stretech" with a big hangover.
The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission ordered the early sixties when a giant, IBM, the then largest available computer system 7030th With this customization, IBM came in stretch-induced stress. The delivery has not been met. The system reached only 70 percent of the announced performance. IBM had to adjust the price of the service and issue a Gutshcirft over 4.5 million dollars. Overall, they took the 7030-Stretech system a 20 million dollar loss. The profit was a small competitor, the IBM also brought in later calamities: the Control Data Corporation (CDC), which secured with a specialization in computer science an interesting market segment.
received Meanwhile, the 1401 increase. It formed a loose clan system: 1401 H, 1401 G, 1440, 1410, 1480th Promoted to precocious transistor, there was the 7000 series, used in the 1401-output systems as fast machines were.
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