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… ...

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 ...

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.& ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...