Indicate that ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), built in 1946 and considered the first of the modern generation of electronic computers, used about 18,000 vacuum tubes.

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 ...

Even the first electronic computer relied on vacuum tubes—about 18,000 of them! But as the uses for vacuum tubes increased, so did the frustration at their limitations. Vacuum tubes were big and ...

The vacuum tube candle actually looks pretty nice, and with a bit of tweaking could easily be made to behave like a candle as well. The final item he shows off is a vacuum tube flash drive.

Levy likens the setup to ENIAC, the first programmable digital computer, a room-sized behemoth that sported 18,000 vacuum tubes and resembled the unholy offspring of a fuse box and a telephone ...

This Chapter describes the packet buffer architecture and design used in the Intel Internet Exchange Architecture (Intel IXA) Portability Framework. It addresses the following questions: What is the ...

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Vacuum tubes are electronic components used to amplify, switch, modify and/or create analog signals by controlling the movement of electrons in low-pressure spaces. These components are used in ...

(Courtesy: UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering/John Zich) A network of vacuum-sealed tubes inspired by the “arms” of the LIGO gravitational wave detector could provide the foundations ...

While leaf blowers disperse leaves by pushing air, leaf vacuums suck up fallen foliage through a tube and into a waste bag, operating much like a house vacuum. (A pool leaf vacuum does the same ...

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