Sperry Rand's third-generation computers 1964-1980

The change from transistors to integrated circuits in the mid-1960s marked the beginning of third-generation computers. A late entrant (1962) in the g eneral-purpose, transistor computer market, Sperry Rand Corporation moved q uickly to produce computers using ICs. The Univac 1108's success (1965) rev ersed the company's declining fortunes in the large-scale arena, while the 9000 series upheld its market share in smaller computers. Sperry Rand faile d to develop a successful minicomputer and, faced with IBM's dominant marke t position by the end of the 1970s, struggled to maintain its position in t he computer industry.