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 ...

[Usagi Electric] is breathtakingly close to having his Bendix G15 vacuum tube computer up and running ... [Lloyd] used to repair the Bendix Computers back in the 1970s, so he’s privy to lots ...

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 on the ends ...

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 ...

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 ...

Explains the principles of transistor switching circuits, highlighting their role in electronic computers. It contrasts transistors with vacuum tubes, emphasizing that transistors function as ...