Questions tagged [early-computer]

Early computers and their design, from before the standards set by the IBM S/360 (of 1964) became canon.

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Do we know the problems the University of Manchester's Transistor Computer was intended to solve?

We can see that the University of Manchester built a transistor computer in 1952. This appears to have been the first transistor computer. We can see that the design was used in the Metrovick 950. My question is: Do we know the problems the…
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