There’s a Blue Bendix in Texas, and thanks to [Usagi Electric] it’s the oldest operating computer in North America. The Bendix G-15, a vacuum tube computer originally released in 1956, is now booting, ...

Culminating a year-long project, [Usagi Electric] aka [David] has just wrapped up his single-bit vacuum tube computer. It is based on the Motorola MC14500 1-bit industrial controller, but since [David ...

The Computer History Museum bills itself as the world's largest collection of computer-related artifacts. It resides in the heart of the Silicon Valley, California's technology epicenter. Yet most of ...

技術の進歩によってコンピューターの論理回路はナノスケールにまで小さくなり、もはや手のひらサイズのスマートフォンですら一昔前のPCをしのぐ性能を有しています。そんな中、あえて50年前に使われていた真空管を使って新しく設計された ...

Among the engineers walking through the doors at Intel’s Silicon Valley campus is a man whose career dates back to the time of vacuum tube computers. In the early 1960s, Steve Russell was among the ...

A vacuum tube, known as the first electronic device, is used to switch, amplify, or commutate electric signals. In the past, vacuum tubes functioned as a main part of a diverse range of electronic ...