Vacuum tubes disappeared from electronic products years ago. Yet there have been some lingering vacuum tube-based products in production. Vacuum tubes disappeared from electronic products years ago.

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. Most other audio gear is solid state ...

A GIF circulating on the Internet of a data cable being attached to a 1945 computer has been followed up with detailed information about the machine by a Twitter account. It explains what this ...

There’s a Blue Bendix in Texas, and thanks to [Usagi Electric] it’s the oldest operating computer in North America. The Bendix G-15, a vacuum tube computer originally released in 1956, is now booting, ...

A vacuum tube, known as the first electronic device, is used to switch, amplify, or commutate electric signals. In the past, vacuum tubes functioned as a main part of a diverse range of electronic ...

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 combined both ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Western Electric type 216A ...

Talking about vacuum tubes—or “vacuum electron devices” (VEDs), as their proponents prefer to call them—may seem like you are discussing ancient history. After all, who even considers VEDs when ...

Vacuum tubeIs an electronic component that performs signal amplification, detection, rectification, etc. with an electrode enclosed in a glass or metal tube whose inside is evacuated. Until a ...