[1][2][3] The computer was built by Jean Howard Felker[4] of Bell Labs for the United States Air Force while L.C.

TRADIC Phase One was developed to explore the feasibility, in the laboratory, of using transistors in a digital computer that could be used to solve aircraft bombing and navigation problems.

Flyable TRADIC was used to establish the feasibility of using an airborne solid-state computer as the control element of a bombing and navigation system.

[citation needed] Flyable TRADIC also incorporated a single high-power output vacuum-tube amplifier to supply clock power to the system.

TRADIC could perform a million logical operations every second, close to, but not as fast as the vacuum tube computers of the day, using its 1 MHz clock.