If you’re looking for a unique way of heating your workshop this year, you could do worse than build an 8-bit computer with a bunch of 6N3P vacuum tubes. While there are some technical details ...

A computer that used vacuum tubes as switching elements; for example, the UNIVAC I. See computer generations. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

These computers ... first integrated circuit chips commercially available. But before even those transistor-based computers is a retrocomputing era rarely touched on: the era of programmable ...

In January of 1954, supported by the military, engineers from Bell Labs built the first computer without vacuum tubes. Known as TRADIC (for TRAnsistorized DIgital Computer), the machine was a mere ...

Because of its classified and strategic nature, the U.S. government kept the existence of ENIAC a closely guarded secret ...

The first wave of electronics was born a century ago with the invention of vacuum tubes. The bulky tubes were supplanted 50 years later by transistors and integrated circuits, representing the second ...