CHM Revolution

Date

1966

Copyright Owner

© Radio Corporation of America (RCA)

Keywords

Third generation computers; Integrated circuit; Seven dwarfs; Plug compatible; System/360 (Computer)

Object ID

102660789

Spectra computers were the first large commercial computers to use monolithic integrated circuits. RCA pointedly highlighted the IC’s advantages over IBM’s hybrid SLTs. Spectra systems implemented the IBM 360 user-state instruction set and could run some IBM software.