AN/GSQ-33 processor

AN/GSQ-33 processor


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I believe this is the actual CPU of the AN/GSQ-33 guidance computer. It was built from discrete transistors in 1957, at a time when Burroughs' commercial computer line was still vacuum-tube-based. The transistors were made by Philco; the machine was designed at Burroughs' Paoli, Pennsylvania, research center.


Copyright 2011, Garrett Wollman. All rights reserved. Photograph taken 2011-02-26.