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Type: Transistorised electronical digital computer
Presentation and Sale Period: First demonstration in 1956; not sold commercially (only one unit produced)
Processor: Transistorised processing unit with an 18-bit word length
Memory: 16,384 words (64 KB) of magnetic core memory
Storage Media: Magnetic tape, punched paper tape
Operating System: none
Notes: It was one of the first fully transistorised computers. The implementation of transistors represented a significant advancement over the much more unreliable vacuum tubes on which most computers were based at the time. The TX-0 was used by MIT, that built it, for research on the human-computer interaction and interactive computing.
