[Mike] has gone back to the 1950s with this computer which uses vacuum tubes instead of transistors. The computer has an eight-bit architecture and features most of the components of any modern ...

The number of physical devices could be cut by using tubes with more than one device in them such as double-triodes, but perhaps that would be cheating. Meanwhile, if you think vacuum computing is ...

Bell Labs made use of it for its coast to coast phone system and vacuum tubes soon found their way into everything from hearing aids to radios to televisions.

The history of vacuum tubes in synthesizers goes all the way back to 1939: the Hammond Novachord, one of the first polyphonic synths ever commercially manufactured, relied on an array of 163 vacuum ...

The telephone company had problems with vacuum tubes, too, and hoped to find something else to use for switching telephone calls. The idea of somehow using semiconductors (solid materials such as ...