Parallel research in transistor computers soon became commercialized as well.

We developed the first electron-tube computer and the first transistor computer.

The world's first transistor computer was built at the University of Manchester in November 1953.

A transistor computer is a computer which uses discrete transistors instead of vacuum tubes.

They adopted the design of the 1955 Manchester University transistor computer as the Metrovick 950.

Later vacuum tube machines and first-generation transistor computers used the IBM 729-series tape drive.

Later two engineers from Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical collaborated with Mr. Grimsdale on what is thought to have been the first commercial transistor computer, known as the MV950.

The Philco Transac models S-1000 scientific computer and S-2000 electronic data processing computer, were the first commercially produced large-scale all transistor computers, which were introduced in 1957.

Metrovick holds a place in history as the builders of the first commercial transistor computer, the Metrovick 950, and the first British axial-flow jet engine, the Metrovick F.2.

The University of Manchester's experimental Transistor Computer was first operational in November 1953 and it is widely believed to be the first transistor computer to come into operation anywhere in the world.

The major factor, he notes, was his familiarization with transistor computers at the Economic Calculations laboratory and the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, during an era of "sheer luck"-that is, when liberalization allowed Romania to trade in electronics with the United States.