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The change from transistors to integrated circuits in the mid-1960s marked the beginning of third-generation computers. A late entrant (1962) in the general-purpose transistor computer market, Sperry Rand Corporation moved quickly to produce computers using ICs. The Univac 1108's success (1965) reversed the company's declining fortunes in the large-scale arena, while the 9000 series upheld its market share in smaller computers. Sperry Rand failed to develop a successful minicomputer and, faced with IBM's dominant market position by the end of the 1970s, struggled to maintain its position in the computer industry
Published in:
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
(Volume:23
,
Issue:
1
)
Date of Publication: Jan-Mar 2001
- Page(s):
- 3 - 16
- ISSN :
- 1058-6180
- INSPEC Accession Number:
- 6930015
- Digital Object Identifier :
- 10.1109/85.910845
- Product Type:
- Journals & Magazines
- Date of Current Version :
- 07 August 2002
- Issue Date :
- Jan-Mar 2001
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