Richard Grimsdale

Richard Lawrence Grimsdale ( born September 18, 1929 in Australia; † 6 December 2005) was a British electrical engineer and computer pioneer, designed the first transistorized computer.

His father, an English engineer, worked at a company MetropolitanVickers project. Grimsdale and his family returned to England, studied electrical engineering at Manchester University and graduated in 1950.

In 1953, while still a postgraduate research student at Manchester University, he developed from the transistors 950 Metrovick He also worked on the Ferranti Mark I and designed a 100 ns read-only memory for the Atlas computer. In 1960 he started at the Associated Electrical Industries as a research engineer. In 1967 he was a lecturer in electrical engineering at Sussex University. He conducted research on computer graphics, networks, and VLSI Berschleunigungs chips for 3D images.

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  • Computer scientist
  • Personality of Electrical Engineering
  • Briton
  • Born in 1929
  • Died in 2005
  • Man
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