This was discussed at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11183970" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11183970</a> in one of the best threads we&#x27;ve ever seen on HN. I won&#x27;t spoil it—just go see for yourself.<p>The current post, technically a dupe, gets a pass because this man was amazing. How amazing? Here is the <i>afterword</i> to the NYT story:<p><i>Mr. Clark, during the 1950s, led the design of two other significant experimental computers, the TX-0 and the TX-2. The TX-0 was the world’s first transistorized computer. The TX-2 was used by Ivan Sutherland, then an M.I.T. graduate student, in creating Sketchpad, a software design program that was a fundamental advance in the graphical display and control of digital information.</i><p>The first transistorized computer and the one used to make Sketchpad? Oh yeah just a couple side projects.