Its name translates as “electronic balancer”, ... It’s not the only vacuum tube computer on display in a museum; the Colossus replica in Bletchley Park is also very much worth seeing.

Culminating a year-long project, [Usagi Electric] aka [David] has just wrapped up his single-bit vacuum tube computer.It is based on the Motorola MC14500 1-bit industrial controller, but since ...

The last major vacuum tube retirement was the long-lasting cathode ray tube (CRT). In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the CRT finally gave way to the LCD/LED and other flat panel displays in video ...

1904: British engineer John Ambrose Fleming invents and patents the thermionic valve, the first vacuum tube. With this advance, the age of modern wireless electronics is born. Although the Supreme ...

Vacuum tube amplifiers just won’t go away. I am speaking more of audio vacuum tube amps than I am of microwave amps like magnetrons, klystrons, TWTs and the like.& ...

Whitener has seized on the current moment of high prices as a chance to reinvigorate his company, the US tube industry, and even the idea of what a vacuum tube can be. Western Electric is ...

But DARPA wants to develop next generation vacuum tube electronics that prove the technology is far, far from dead. DARPAs's new Innovative Vacuum Electronic Science and Technology ...

In addition to the rare 300B, there exist a great number of tube types. Electric-guitar amps, for example, routinely use vacuum tubes because their warm, engaging sonic signature can’t be ...