Editing NCR 304

{{Short description|1950s transistor-based computer}}
[[Image:BRL61-NCR 304.jpg|thumb|NCR 304 computer system<br>Camp Pendleton, California]]
The '''NCR 304''' [[computer]], announced in 1957,<ref>Castanias, R. P., and J. E. Sherman. "[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5222100 Review of Computer Progress in 1957]" [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=5222083 ''IRE Transactions on Electronic Computers'' 1] (March 1958), p. 65</ref> first delivered in 1959,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Wgmey4obagC&q=%22ncr+304%22+1959&pg=RA1-PA73|title=Computerworld|last=Enterprise|first=I. D. G.|date=1985-03-18|publisher=IDG Enterprise|pages=73|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5L8dAQAAMAAJ&q=%22ncr+304%22+1957|title=Historical evidence on the evolution of vertical exchange mechanisms: examples from the computer systems industry|last=Krickx|first=Guido Armand Marie Jules|date=1988|publisher=UCLA|language=en}}</ref> was [[NCR Voyix|National Cash Register (NCR)]]'s first [[transistor]]-based computer. The 304 was developed and manufactured in cooperation with [[General Electric]],<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofmodernc00ceru_0|url-access=registration|quote=NCR 304 1957.|title=A History of Modern Computing|last=Ceruzzi|first=Paul E.|date=2003|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=9780262532037|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofmodernc00ceru_0/page/66 66]|language=en}}</ref> where it was also used internally.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=viDGg4_NvPQC&q=%22NCR+304%22+internal&pg=PA93|title=The Early Computer Industry: Limitations of Scale and Scope|last=Gandy|first=A.|date=2012-11-30|publisher=Springer|isbn=9780230389113|pages=93|language=en}}</ref> 

Its follow-on was the [[NCR 315]].

==See also==
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* [[Computer architecture]]
* [[Electronic hardware]]
* [[Glossary of computer hardware terms]]
* [[Harwell CADET]]
* [[History of computing hardware]]
* [[List of computer hardware manufacturers]]
* [[Manchester_computers#Transistor_Computer|Manchester Transistor Computer]]
* [[Metrovick 950]]
* [[Transistor]]
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