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… ...

The process of building your own vacuum tube isn’t hard, but it’s not a walk in the park. The difficulty comes in the sheer number of processes, and the tricks of the trade found at every step.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vacuum tubes were the foundation of early electronics, from communications to televisions to computers. In a vacuum tube (), electrons are 'boiled' off of a heated filament (or cathode) and ...

The first computers were built using them, but they were vast and consumed large amounts of power. So, when the transistor was invented by Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain in 1947, the days of the ...

Way back in the salad days of digital computing (the 1940s and '50s), computers were made of vacuum tubes -- big, hot, clunky devices that, when you got right down to it, were essentially ...

The Vacuum Tube A vacuum tube is just that: a glass tube surrounding a vacuum (an area from which all gases have been removed). What makes it interesting is that when electrical contacts are put ...