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 ...

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 ...

A travelling wave tube shows how far vacuum electronics has come. Mention vacuum tubes and some people (those old enough and/or historically minded) might think of ENIAC, the first electronic digital ...

The transistor revolutionized the world and made the abundant computing we now rely on a possibility, but before the transistor, there was the vacuum tube. Large, hot, power hungry, and prone to ...

Putting vacuum tubes in a PC might sound a little like adding a hand crank to a Porsche, but at least one company thinks it might be the future of computer audio. Taiwanese components company AOpen, ...

I have always been interested in electronics engineering ingenuity used to solve “impossible” problems. One such problem was the task of deciphering the German Army's most secret transmissions during ...

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 ...

For most electrical engineers, the vacuum tube or, more formally, the vacuum electron device (VED), is a quaint curiosity and artifact of the past, and with good reason: The world of solid-state ...

In the 21 st century, it is all too easy to take today’s powerful microcomputers for granted, and as artificial intelligence continues to make inroads, the assumption is that massive amounts of data ...