Day in Tech History
October 7, 1954: Goodbye Vacuum Tube, Hello Transistor
1954 – IBM created the first calculating machine to use solid-state transistors. This was the first nail in the coffin for vacuum tubes. The end result was a 2,000 transistor calculator no smaller in size and no faster in speed.However, the transistor counterpart was cheaper, took less power and created less heat. IBM went on […]