It’s a great illustrator of what it takes to make a computer with vacuum tubes. There actually were vacuum tube static and dynamic RAM memories. For example, the Williams tube (invented around ...

The First Transistorized Computer . January, 1954: If transistors could replace vacuum tubes in the phone system, then they certainly could replace them in computers too.

ENIAC is the world's first electronic computer. As a stand-alone device, it didn't support networking, although it facilitated a network of humans who used it for years to aid the efforts of World War ...

First, alxy, I don’t know how many vacuum tubes a 650 had, but it was a “compact” machine, with the card reader and punch being almost as big as the computer itself, and the power supply was ...

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 ...

Vacuum Tube-Era Tech is Ushering in a New Generation of Superfast Devices We may not need semiconductors in the future. / Robots & Machines / Microelectronics / Moores Law / Semiconductors ...

Prior to Bell Labs’ first working transistor in 1947, which ushered in the advent of semiconductor technology and the computer age, every long-distance telephone call, radio and television ...