A long time ago, I use to work on a very old analog computer made with tubes. It was 120 separate op amps that had a +-100V swing. Yeah, if you got on that “One” it was very painful.

The Bendix G-15, a vacuum tube computer originally released in 1956, is now booting, and running code from paper tape. [David, aka Usagi] received the G-15 about a year ago from The System Source ...

Oct 10, 2021 12:00:00 Introducing the newly designed computer 'Ena. Computer' using 550 Soviet vacuum tubes. With the advancement of technology, the ...

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 ...

How do you build a functional computer with "only" 113 vacuum tubes and 1450 solid-state diodes is the part I can't get over. I have a feeling some next level hardware wizardry was involved here, ...

Researchers from UC San Diego are using vacuum tube technology to develop more efficient computer processors. The research could result in faster microelectronic devices and better solar panels ...

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.

While semiconductors replaced vacuum tubes as the go-to way to conduct electrical current in our gadgets decades ago, scientists are looking to bring them back for computers used in space.

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 ...

Whitener, a 69-year-old self-described inventor, vintage hi-fi collector, and Led Zeppelin fanatic, bought and revived AT&T’s shuttered vacuum tube business in 1995.