My first project was to build an ionization gauge control circuit for Professor Edgar Everhart's Cockcroft-Walton accelerator. In those days, vacuum tubes… — David Lee Copy Share Image
UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father was a ham radio geek, and I remember the glow of the vacuum tubes from a Hammarlund receiver that became… — Bre Pettis Copy Share Image
“Radios, vacuum tubes, transistors, televisions, solar cells, coaxial cables, laser beams, microprocessors, computers, cell phones, fiber optics—all these essential tools of modern… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
