When we talk about a “computer” today, we generally picture an electronic machine that can perform various kinds of mathematical operations, manage its program flow, move data from one place to ...

In 1959, Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed a patent for the first integrated circuit, which would form the basis for the ...

It doesn’t happen often that we report on new vacuum tube based computer designs. Today however, we’re pleased to introduce to you the Fast Reliable Electronic Digital Dot Computer, or Fred.Computer ...

See refrigerator-esque and semi-trailer-sized models, including an early mobile computer. The Vintage Computer Festival East is a once-a-year museum exhibit in Wall, New Jersey that shows off vacuum ...

A duo-triode may be 2 Watts. So 113 tubes can be 226 Watts. OK, bias and coupling elements may push past 3 Watts per bottle, 339 Watts. I was just reading of an Intel NUC tiny-computer CPU of nominal ...

The transistor is one of the most profound innovations in all of human existence. First discovered in 1947, it has scaled like no advance in human history; we can pack billions of transistors into ...

Instead of viewing dusty artifacts of ancient cultures or towering skeletons of prehistoric animals, visitors to a museum on Boston’s waterfront eye dinosaurs of another kind — oversized forerunners ...

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 broadcast, ...

Solid-state technology all but obliterated the vacuum tube market in the early 1960s. So why are tubes still popular with audiophiles and musicians? Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has ...