In a few museums around the world, there lies the special experience of seeing some of the earliest computers. These room-filling monsters have multiple racks of vacuum tubes that are kept working by ...

When we talk about a “computer” today, we generally picture an electronic machine that can perform various kinds of mathematical operations, manage its program flow, move data from one place to ...

Mr. Contact's Ena.Computer Is a Modern, Miniature Vacuum Tube Computer — and It Plays Pong --Hackster.io https://www.hackster.io/news/mr-contact-s-ena-computer-is-a ...

Walk round the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park and sooner or later you'll hear a cry of recognition and someone will say: "I remember using one of those." It probably doesn't happen ...

Researchers have developed a vacuum tube prototype that is both fast and tough against radiation, making it ideal for computers in space. Researchers have developed a vacuum tube prototype that is ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This glass vacuum tube has one a ...

Vacuum tube technology is making a comeback, with physicists hoping to use miniature 'vacuum transistors' to make increasingly-smaller computers. The development comes just as the laws of physics are ...

Putting vacuum tubes in a PC might sound a little like adding a hand crank to a Porsche, but at least one company thinks it might be the future of computer audio. Taiwanese components company AOpen, ...