Father of the PDP-1: The TX-0, Transistorized EXperimental Computer Zero (1956)
The TX-0, for Transistorized Experimental computer zero, but affectionately referred to as tixo (pronounced "tix oh"), is an early fully transistorized computer that contained a then-huge 64K of 18-bit words of magnetic-core memory. Construction of the TX-0 began in 1955 and…