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Company: Iowa State
Year: 1942
Collectable: First automatic electronic digital computer.
Company: University of Pennsylvania
Year: 1946
Collectable: First electronic general-purpose computer.
Company: University of Manchester
Year: 1948
Collectable: First stored-program computer.
Company: Cambridge Univ.
Year: 1949
Collectable: Second electronic digital stored-program computer to go into regular service.
Company: National Physical Laboratory
Collectable: One of the first computers built in the UK. A version of the ACE (Automatic Computing Engine) designed by Alan Turing.
Company: Electronics Research Associates
Collectable: First computer to store and run a program by memory.
Company: MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Collectable: Cold War vacuum tube computer.
Company: J. Lyons and Co.
Collectable: Built in the UK, the first computer used for commercial business applications.
Company: Remington Rand
Collectable: First American computer designed for business and administrative use.
Company: Rand Corp.
Collectable: Based on the von Neumann architecture pioneered on the IAS machine.
Company: Burroughs
Collectable: Generally recognized as the first computer to be marketed with an index register.
Company: English Electric
Collectable: One of the earliest British commerically available computers. The production version of the Pilot ACE.
Company: Bendix Corporation
Collectable: Based on on work of Alan Turing at the National Physical Laboratories in Britain.
Company: MIT
Collectable: Fully transistorized computer which contained a then-huge 64K of 18-bit words of magnetic core memory.
Company: Raytheon
Collectable: Fixed application computer guidance system for Polaris submarine-launched missles.
Company: Sperry-Rand
Collectable: Marked the beginning of the solid-state era in the computing industry.
Company: Control Data Corp.
Collectable: A totally transistorized machine, used for testing the feasibility of creating a larger system made up of only transistors.
Company: IBM
Collectable: A second-generation transistorized version of the earlier vacuum tube mainframe computers.
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Company: IBM
Collectable: U.S.air defense system from 1958-1983 based on the Whirlwind computer design.
Company: United States Army
Collectable: Mounted in the trailer of a semi-trailer truck, while a second supplied power, allowing it to be moved about the battlefield.
Company: Nippon Electric Company (NEC)
Collectable: Early transistorized multi-lingual computer.
Company: Remington Rand
Collectable: Remington Rand's first attempt at building a supercomputer.[
Company: Control Data Corportation
Collectable: Known as one of the first commercially successful transistorized computers.
Company: Burroughs
Collectable: Large mainframe optimized for running ALGOL 60.
Company: IBM
Collectable: IBM's first transistorized supercomputer.
Company: IBM
Collectable: Had seven index registers instead of three on previous IBM machines, and introduced double-precisioin floating point and additional instructions.
Company: Philco
Collectable:Chosen for use at the North American Aerospace Defense "NORAD".
Company: Ferranti
Collectable: One of the world's first supercomputers, and considered to be the most powerful computer in the world at that time.
Company: Control Data Corporation
Collectable: Flagship mainframe supercomputer of CDC's 6000 series.
Company: IBM
Collectable: Could serve as a stand-alone system, a communications system or the satellite processor of a larger system.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Collectable: The KI10 offered paged memory management, and also supported a larger physical address space of 4 megawords.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: One of the most influential computers in history in more ways than can be listed here.
Company: Texas Instruments
Collectable: Key to the ASC's design was a single high-speed shared memory.
Company: IBM
Collectable: Specifically designed to handle ultra-high-speed data processing for scientific applications
Company: Control Data Corporation
Collectable: At the time, this machine was generally regarded as the fastest computer in the world.
Company: Burroughs
Collectable: One of the first attempts to build a massively parallel computer.
Company: Amdahl Corporation
Collectable: Ran the same software as IBM System/370 computers but cost less and was smaller and faster.
Company: Control Data Corporation
Collectable: Installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory and became one of the best known and most successful supercomputers in history.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: A general-purpose timesharing system which ran TOPS-10 software.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: First computer to implement the VAX architecture.
Company: Thinking Machines
Collectable: A fundamentally different kind of computer which offered a preview of a parallel processing computer.
Company: Cydrome
Collectable: A mini-super whose numeric processor achieved one half the performance of a contemporary supercomputer.
Company: ETA Systems, Inc.
Collectable: A supercomputer with a cycle time less than 10ns - some models achieving a cycle time of about 7 ns - considered rapid by mid-1980s standards.
Company: Ardent
Collectable: Aim was to produce a desktop multiprocessing supercomputer dedicated to graphics that could support up to four processor units.
Company: Evans and Sutherland
Collectable: Released just as the supercomputer market was drying up. Only a handful were built and only two sold.
Company: Stardent
Collectable: Successor to the original Titan and combined RISC architecture with vector processing.
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Company: University of Wisconsin
Collectable: Designed by computer pioneer Gene Amdahl.
Company: EAI
Collectable: Incorporated the philosophy of component grouping.
Company: Librascope (division of General Precision, Inc.)
Collectable: Early off-the-shelp computer commonly referred to as a desk computer.
Company: U.S. Navy
Collectable: Computerized information processing system developed by the United States Navy.
Company: IBM
Collectable: Marketed as an inexpensive "scientific computer".
Company: IBM
Collectable: First affordable general-purpose computer which gave the world its first realistic glimpse of the size and importance of the emerging computer industry.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: First commercial computer that focused on interaction with the user rather than the efficient use of computer cycles.
Company: Control Data Corp.
Collectable: The first truly small computer to hit the market.
Company: Packard Bell
Collectable: A bit-serial computer with acoustic delay line memory.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: 18-bit machine intended to be a slower, cheaper alternative to the PDP-1
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: Designed as a new kind of mainframe, to be used for both timesharing and real-time laboratory applications.
Company: General Precision
Collectable: A transistorized update to the LGP-30 which cost one-third the price of its predecessor. Unfortunately it was also about one-third as fast as the earlier computer.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: DEC's first 12-bit machine
Company: Computer Control Company (3C)
Collectable: Designed by Gardner Hendrie and was the first 16-bit minicomputer.
Company: Fairchild Semiconductor
Collectable: High-level time-sharing computer designed under the leadership of Gordon Moore.
Company: IBM
Collectable: IBM's least expensive computer at that time, aimed at technical markets like education and engineering,
Company: Digital Computer Corporation
Collectable: First to use DEC's Flip-Chip technology. A PDP-7 was used to develop the operating system that later became Unix.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: First successful commercial minicomputer. DEC sold more than 50,000 systems - the most of any computer up to that date.
Company: Honeywell
Collectable: Used as the basis of "Interface Message Processors" or IMPs that were used to connect the very first networked computers to the ARPANET.
Company: Siemens
Collectable: The world’s first mass-produced fully-transistorized universal computer.
Company: SDS (Scientific Data Systems, Inc.)
Collectable: First computer designed specifically for on-line computing, and the first host computer ever to be connected to the “Internet”.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: PDP model available in desktop and rack-mount sizes. Smaller, and less expensive than PDP-8.
Company: MIT Instrumentation Lab and Raytheon
Collectable: Aerospace pioneer.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: First commercial display to include a pushdown stack.
Company: Hewlett-Packard
Collectable: HP's first calculator introduced into the young electronic calculator market.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: DEC's first micro-programmed machine which featured a speed increase of approximately twice that of the PDP-7.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: Returned to a faster, fully parallel implementation but used much less-expensive TTL MSI logic.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: A less expensive and much smaller version of the PDP-8/I.
Company: Data General
Collectable: Popular 16-bit minicomputer packaged into a single rack mount case with enough power to do most simple computing tasks.
Company: Honeywell
Collectable: Commonly known as the the "Kitchen Computer" as it was primarily an electronic recipe storage box.
Company: Digital Equipment Corportion
Collectable: A dual-processor 12-bit minicomputer designed for interactive, real-time laboratory use.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: DEC's last 18-bit computer system and the only one implemented with integrated circuits.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: Had several uniquely innovative features, making it one of DEC's most successful product lines.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: The first PDP-11 to run Unix.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: Well-regarded because so many types of I/O devices were available for it.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: The industrial version of the PDP-8/e.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: An excellent computational tool for large multi-user, multi-task installations.
Company: Applicon
Collectable: Computer graphics processing system that accepted rough sketches.
Company: Xerox Parc
Collectable: Pioneer graphics program and framebuffer computer system.
Company: Wang Laboratories
Collectable: The company's first minicomputer that could perform data processing in a common computer language.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: First machine to introduce 18-bit memory addressing on the PDP-11 platform.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable:Sold with a short OMNIBUS backplane.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: Largest of the PDP-11s. Two important changes were the addition of cache and 22-bit memory management.
Company: Systems Engineering Laboratories (sub of Gould, Inc)
Collectable: The industry's first true 32-bit super minicomputer.
Company: MIT
Collectable: Mechanical computer made up almost entirely of tinkertoys.
Company: Microdata
Collectable: A 16-bit minicomputer.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: Programmable Data Terminal - first terminal-based PDP-11 system, based on the LSI-11 board.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: DEC's most successful PDP-11 in terms of unit volume.
Company: Data General
Collectable: 16-bit minicomputer which included support for virtual memory and multitasking more suitable to the small office than the lab.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: Came in "low boy/high boy" cabinets. Offered attributes normally found in larger, more expensive computers.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: A PDP-11/70 that was extended to contain multiprocessing features.
Company: IBM
Collectable: Standalone word processor envisioned for centralized word processing centers at large organizations.
Company: MIT AI Laboratory
Collectable: The basis for Lisp-machine systems.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: The industry's first 32-bit minicomputer, using Large Scale Integration (LSI ) technology.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: Multi-INstrument Computer designed to be a laboratory data collecting machine and came on a wheely stand.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: Improved the 11/23 with more functions on the (larger) processor card.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: Third VAX introduced, which was a still-more-compact, still-lower-performance bit slice implementation of the VAX.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: A smaller-size packaging and cost-reduced model of the VAX 11/730.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: Became the "workhorse" of the 80's while reviving DEC's flagging fortunes.
Company: Convex Computer Corporation
Collectable: Modeled on the Cray-1 architecture with slower but less expensive CMOS technology.
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Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: A dual-processor variant of the VAX 8200 and was among the first multiprocessor VAX computers.
Company: Multiflow
Collectable: Mini supercomputer which embodied the
Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) architecture.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: Featured more than three times the performance of the MicroVAX II.
Company: Digital Equipment Corporation
Collectable: included high-density ECL macrocells, multi-chip module packaging and heavily macropipelined architecture.
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