Wesley A. Clark
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Wesley Allison Clark was an American physicist and computer engineer who is credited for designing the first modern personal computer. He was also a computer designer and the main participant, along w
Wes Clark in 2009
LINC home computer
Clark in 2002
TX-0
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The TX-0, for Transistorized Experimental computer zero, but affectionately referred to as tixo, is an early fully transistorized computer that contained a then-huge 64K of 18-bit words of magnetic-co
Wesley A. Clark
…helped form his views that computers were to be used as tools on demand for those who needed them. That view carried over into his designs for the TX-0 and TX-2 and the LINC. He expresses this view clearly here: ...both of the Cambridge machines, Whirlwind and MTC, had been completely committed to the…
TX-0 computer circuitry used Philco surface-barrier transistors, which were encapsulated in plug-in vacuum tubes for testing and easy removal.
Philco surface-barrier transistor advertisement for the first high-frequency transistors, which were used in the TX-0 transistorized computer