Title :
Flyable TRADIC: the first airborne transistorized digital computer
Author_Institution :
51 Winthrop New Rd., Aurora, IL, USA
Abstract :
The article describes the Flyable TRADIC research project from inception through flight test. It includes technical descriptions of the design as well as the author´s personal recollections of those early days of stored program control. This work was done while the author was with Bell Telephone Laboratories, which at that time was the research and development arm of AT&T and now is the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies
Keywords :
aircraft computers; digital computers; electronic switching systems; history; transistors; Bell Telephone Laboratories; Flyable TRADIC research project; airborne transistorized digital computer; flight test; personal recollections; stored program control; technical descriptions; Aircraft propulsion; Equations; Large Hadron Collider; Laser radar; Military aircraft; Production systems; Radar tracking; Research and development; Testing; Weapons;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE