UNIVAC Solid State (Paperback)


High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The UNIVAC Solid State was a 2-address, bi-quinary coded decimal computer, with memory on a rotating drum with 5000 signed 10 digit words, spinning at 17,667 RPM in a helium atmosphere. It was announced by Sperry Rand in December 1958, as a response to the IBM 650. It came in two versions: the Solid State 80 (IBM-style 80 column cards) and the Solid State 90 (Remington-Rand 90 column cards). With 20 vacuum tubes, 700 transistors, and 3000 FERRACTOR amplifiers in its CPU, the Solid State was one of the first computers to use solid state components.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The UNIVAC Solid State was a 2-address, bi-quinary coded decimal computer, with memory on a rotating drum with 5000 signed 10 digit words, spinning at 17,667 RPM in a helium atmosphere. It was announced by Sperry Rand in December 1958, as a response to the IBM 650. It came in two versions: the Solid State 80 (IBM-style 80 column cards) and the Solid State 90 (Remington-Rand 90 column cards). With 20 vacuum tubes, 700 transistors, and 3000 FERRACTOR amplifiers in its CPU, the Solid State was one of the first computers to use solid state components.

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Imprint

Betascript Publishing

Country of origin

United States

Release date

August 2010

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First published

August 2010

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Dimensions

152 x 229 x 7mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback - Trade

Pages

108

ISBN-13

978-6131442056

Barcode

9786131442056

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LSN

6131442053



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