IBM and UNIVAC were invited to bid for the contract to design a computer for the University of California Radiation Laboratory at Livermore. In order to meet the deadline and budget, they opted to use the older surface barrier transistor design rather than the newer diffusion type, which were also held not to have a sufficient track record to be reliable. The speed fell lamentably short of the expected hundred-fold increase in processing speed above the older IBM 704 and was in fact only three times faster because of the cost and technological constraints. This claim is typical of that time, when computers were expected to increase in performance exponentially, whereas this did not in fact come to pass. Nonetheless, IBM won the contract and delivered the computer, which was a success in bu
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| - IBM and UNIVAC were invited to bid for the contract to design a computer for the University of California Radiation Laboratory at Livermore. In order to meet the deadline and budget, they opted to use the older surface barrier transistor design rather than the newer diffusion type, which were also held not to have a sufficient track record to be reliable. The speed fell lamentably short of the expected hundred-fold increase in processing speed above the older IBM 704 and was in fact only three times faster because of the cost and technological constraints. This claim is typical of that time, when computers were expected to increase in performance exponentially, whereas this did not in fact come to pass. Nonetheless, IBM won the contract and delivered the computer, which was a success in bu
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| - IBM and UNIVAC were invited to bid for the contract to design a computer for the University of California Radiation Laboratory at Livermore. In order to meet the deadline and budget, they opted to use the older surface barrier transistor design rather than the newer diffusion type, which were also held not to have a sufficient track record to be reliable. The speed fell lamentably short of the expected hundred-fold increase in processing speed above the older IBM 704 and was in fact only three times faster because of the cost and technological constraints. This claim is typical of that time, when computers were expected to increase in performance exponentially, whereas this did not in fact come to pass. Nonetheless, IBM won the contract and delivered the computer, which was a success in business terms because it was "good enough".
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