Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was jointly founded by GE, AT&T and Westinghouse Electric in 1919. It was acquired by General Electric Company in 1985 and transferred to Thomson in 1988. .
Historically, it has produced televisions, picture tubes, video recorders, audio and communication products, employing about 55,000 people, distributed in 45 countries around the world, and its products are sold in more than 100 countries.
The support of the US federal government has destined RCA to be far ahead in technology. During the period when radio was popular, he became the leader of global radio with his cutting-edge technology; when the world was intoxicated by the charm of radio, he took the lead in inventing the first black-and-white television, leading the world into the age of images - March 29, 1950, Radio Corporation of America Successfully demonstrated an all-electronic color television picture tube. The company's chairman, David Sarnoff, announced that "we have stepped on the threshold of a new era of television - the era of color television."
In 1954
The solar cell was invented by several outstanding scientists from Bell Labs and RCA.
In 1957
The military inventory management computer (electronic tube type) BIZMAC/1 was successfully manufactured and incorporated into the Army Ordnance Factory. Soon, New York Life Insurance Company also ordered the BIZMAC/1 machine. Later, BIZMAC/2, an improved version of BIZMAC/1, was incorporated into Passengers Life Insurance Company.
December 1958
The all-transistor computer RCA/501 was released and entered the commercial computer market.
1960
The RCA/301 (medium-sized) and RCA/601 (large-scale) computers were released. Later, within a year, it signed technical assistance agreements with Hitachi Manufacturing Co., Ltd., France's Boer Machinery Company, West Germany's Siemens Company, and the United Kingdom's International Computer and Tabulating Machinery Company to export technical information.
1963
Published the RCA/3301 processing computer
December 1964
Published the SPECTA/ which completely adopts semiconductor integrated circuits 70 series machine.
1969
Determined to occupy the second place in the computer market. In January, Danaken was hired from IBM to vigorously strengthen the original sales team
In 1970
The RCA series of machines (RCA/2, 3, 6 and 7) were released
In December 1971
It suddenly announced its withdrawal from the general computer business and sold its customer base to Ronnivac Corporation. The RAC computer later released by Radio Corporation of America, which had first-class technology, not only surpassed IBM and other competing companies in some aspects, but also gave some new concepts to the company's machines. For example, the RCA/501 model is not designed to be just one model, but a series of three models with monthly rentals ranging from US$10,000 to US$30,000.
According to the product plan in the early 1960s, the mainframe RCA/601 and the minicomputer RCA/301 were added to the RCA/500 series. It also planned to release the third-generation computer RCA/ULTRA series using integrated circuits in 1963. This plan was called "Project Lightning" and was being studied by several RCA research institutes. At the same time, many other projects were studied. Such as: memory, system architecture, circuits, input/output devices, etc. If RCA could make up its mind to launch new products as planned and strengthen its marketing efforts, it might not lead to the love affair of 1971.