The IBM 8000 series was an ill-fated transistor-based

Transistor computer

A transistor computer is a computer which uses discrete transistors instead of vacuum tubes. The "first generation" of electronic computers used vacuum tubes, which generated large amounts of heat, were bulky, and were unreliable. A "second generation" of computers, through the late 1950s and...

 successor to the IBM 7000 series. Important engineers on the project included Fred Brooks

Fred Brooks

Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. is a software engineer and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM's System/360 family of computers and the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month...

 and Gerry Blaauw

Gerrit Blaauw

Gerrit Anne Blaauw is one of the principal designers of the IBM System/360 line of computers, together with Fred Brooks, Gene Amdahl, and others....

. Despite some technical successes, the project became a political football, amid IBM's search for a unified product line. The project was canceled in 1961, supplanted by the very successful System/360

System/360

The IBM System/360 was a mainframe computer system family first announced by IBM on April 7, 1964, and sold between 1964 and 1978. It was the first family of computers designed to cover the complete range of applications, from small to large, both commercial and scientific...

series.

Model numbers:

• 8103 Processor
• 8104 Processor
• 8106 Processor
• 8108 High Speed Floating Point Unit
• 8112 High Speed Floating Point Unit