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… ...

But before even those transistor-based computers is a retrocomputing era rarely touched on: the era of programmable vacuum tube machines. [Mike] has gone back to the 1950s with this computer which ...

Vacuum tube computers, including the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) and the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), signaled the transition from mechanical to electronic computing in ...

Bullish (Video) Vacuum Tubes (1943) Posted: February 18, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025. The video explains the operation of the vacuum tube, specifically the triode, which is essential in ...

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 ...

From the 1920s through the 1950s, the American vacuum tube industry thrived. RCA, General Electric, Raytheon, and other manufacturers competed to invent and manufacture more reliable tubes, ...

"The thing to remember is computers were giant room-based, vacuum-tube devices," Mark Reidl, associate director at the Georgia Tech Machine Learning Center, told ABC News.