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[yuki]

This thread is now derailed and about DRTE Computers:

The DRTE Computer was a transistorized computer built at the Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment (DRTE), part of the Canadian Defence Research Board. It was one of the earlier fully transistorized machines, running in prototype form in 1957, and fully developed form in 1960. Although the performance was quite good, equal to that of contemporary machines like the PDP-1, no commercial vendors ever took up the design, and the only potential sale to the Canadian Navy's Pacific Naval Laboratories, fell through. The machine eventually ended up on display at the Canada Science and Technology Museum, but the display was later removed and its current fate is unknown.

I heard they were using the original DRTE plan for a new type of computer system.

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Where :o

[Bones4]

I heard they were using the original DRTE plan for a new type of computer system.

That's interesting. Where did you hear this?

[TapeDeck]

That's interesting. Where did you hear this?

i'm betting the internet

[Bones4]

i'm betting the internet

I was asking for a more specific answer, smartass.

[Ghoul]

You guys are DUMB BASSES!! But I can't even make a good argument without making myself look like an idiot. I have no idea what I'm talking about right n- HURR DURR.
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[Ronin]

Canada only has a sailboat club, with maybe a cannon.

[Bones4]

You guys are DUMB BASSES!! But I can't even make a good argument without making myself look like an idiot. I have no idea what I'm talking about right n- HURR DURR.
*COUGH*Jannet*COUGH*

I'll kindly ask you to stay on topic.

On topic:

Although it appears it was never an official recommendation, by the mid-1950s the DRTE decided that the best way to really develop transistor techniques in a complex system was to build a computer. This was not something they needed for their own use at the time, simply an example of an extremely complex system that would test their capabilities like few other systems could. But as development continued, many of the engineers involved became more interested in computer design than electronics, outside the DRTE's charter and eventually a source of friction between the group and the DRB who funded them.

[TapeDeck]

it's ok i don't think any of us - ALL GLORY TO HYPNOTOAD

[IcyGamma]

Hi, my name is Lewnaja.

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[yuki]

That's interesting. Where did you hear this?

I do not recall, it was a few months ago. Really vague detail in some sort of article.

[Bones4]

I do not recall, it was a few months ago. Really vague detail in some sort of article.

That's certainly a reliable source, dumbstuff.I'm just kidding. I lubs you.