Predicta?! -> philco computers

Alexandre Souza wrote: Ah, the Predicta lives on (but where's my flying car?). In case you are unaware, the original was the Philco Predicta from the late 50's. They were quite the design statement but the originals had reliability problems and (by some accounts) killed Philco the company. Very famous (or infamous) in the vintage radio/TV community. Bringing this on-topic, Philco was also an early transistor and transistorised computer manufacturer (I guess they figured a good market for lots and lots of transistors would be computers): "In 1954, engineers at Philco Corporation invented the surface barrier transistor, the first transistor suitable for use in high-speed computers. Philco set up a computer activity?eventually a computer division?and in 1957 introduced the Philco Transac S-2000, the first large-scale, transistorized scientific computer system offered as a product by a computer manufacturer." See <http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/mags/an/&toc=comp/mags/an/2004/02/a2toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/MAHC.2004.1299658> for a first person account. I'm not familiar with what happened to the computer division with the demise of Philco but it could be interesting to speculate as to what would have happened to Philco computers if the Predicta hadn't killed the company.