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Generation 2
Transistor Computers

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1953

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1954

  • Bell Labs TRADIC for U.S. Air Force

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1955

  • Harwell CADET demonstrated February 1955, one-off scientific computer

  • IBM 608 transistor calculator (its development was preceded by the prototyping of an experimental all-transistor version of the 604 demonstrated in October 1954), announced 1955, first shipped Dec 1957

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1956

  • Electrotechnical Laboratory ETL Mark III (Japan) experimental, began development 1954, completed 1956, Japan's first transistorized stored-program computer.

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1957

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1958

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1959

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1960

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1961

1962

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1963

 

1964

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1965

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1966

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1967

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1968

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transistorized_computers

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