Culminating a year-long project, [Usagi Electric] aka [David] has just wrapped up his single-bit vacuum tube computer. It is based on the Motorola MC14500 1-bit industrial controller, but since ...

The First Transistorized Computer January, 1954: If transistors could replace vacuum tubes in the phone system, then they certainly could replace them in computers too.

Most vacuums come with a tube that works with several including attachments so that you can clean areas the vacuum, itself, can't go. These attachments are still too large to clean out your ...

A group of scientists have developed super-efficient microscopic vacuum tubes that may be able to outperform semiconductors.

Most people associate vacuum tubes with a time when a single computer took up several rooms and "debugging" meant removing the insects stuck in the valves, but this technology may be in for a ...

Meanwhile, the computer newly designed using the vacuum tube that was used 50 years ago is the Electron tube New Automatic Computer, commonly known as ' Ena.Computer '.

Last vacuum tube computer I used had an MTBF of 45 minutes. State of the art at the time! You could run for 45 minutes (on average) without losing everything.

The Vintage Computer Festival East is a once-a-year museum exhibit in Wall, New Jersey that shows off vacuum tube and transistor computers from the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

We have occasionally featured vacuum tube computers here at Hackaday and we’ve brought you many single board computers, but until now it’s probable we haven’t brought you a machin… ...