Vacuum tubes fueled a technological revolution ... cables (and transcontinental ones too), they performed logic for early computers, and they delivered that warm fuzzy sound for high fidelity ...

Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer.

ENIAC, the mammoth machine credited with helping to start the computer age ... attention when he announced in 1942 that he thought vacuum tubes could be used to speed up the mechanical calculators ...

Nanotechnology promises to bring a "third wave" of electronics. 1900-1950: Vacuum tubes are invented and perfected, resulting in radio, television and room-size computers. Vacuum-tube technology ...

The telephone company had problems with vacuum tubes, too, and hoped to find something ... followed quickly by transistor radios. The computer industry immediately began designing computers ...