Philco was one of the pioneers of transistorized computers, also known as second generation computers. After the company developed the surface barrier...

Philco (an acronym for Philadelphia Battery Company) is an American electronics manufacturer headquartered in Philadelphia. Philco was a pioneer in battery...

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...

transistor that was suitable for high-speed computers. Philco developed and produced a miniature transistorized computer called the "Transac" (models C-1000 and...

This is a list of transistorized computers, which were digital computers that used discrete transistors as their primary logic elements. Discrete transistors...

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...

incorporated around 3,600 Philco high-frequency surface-barrier transistors, the first transistor suitable for high-speed computers. The TX-0 and its direct...

sign-magnitude binary computers, and ones' complement binary computers, although Philco, RCA, and Honeywell, for example, had some computers that were character-based...

subsidiary the following year. Philips acquired the similar-sounding company Philco in 1981, and Philips was able to freely use the Philips name, alternating...

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...