alt Hacker News"Before microchips existed, computers were built with mechanical relays." Should probably say something about vacuum tubes as well!
"Before microchips existed, computers were built with mechanical relays." Should probably say something about vacuum tubes as well!
And discrete transistors. Now that my curiosity is piqued, I found this nice timeline:
https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/computers/
It looks like transistorized computers were dominant at the point when integrated circuits were introduced.