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 machine that ...

It could perform a million logical operations every second, still not quite as fast as the vacuum tube computers of the day, but pretty close. And best of all, it operated on less than 100 watts ...

and it was also used in everything from radios to televisions to the first computers. The audion, or triode, at the heart of the vacuum tube is what the transistor was built to replace.

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Long the backbone of electronics, semiconductors are finding new uses in the development of electronic noses and tongues.

The VirtuPVT system, conceived for rooftop applications, includes an absorber plate, monocrystalline PERC solar cells, a borosilicate vacuum tube, an integrated reflector, and an integrated ...

Culminating a year-long project, [Usagi Electric] aka [David] has just wrapped up his single-bit vacuum tube computer ... he notes that plenty of vacuum tube computers of the era used silicon ...