In January of 1954, supported by the military, engineers from Bell Labs built the first computer without vacuum tubes. Known as TRADIC (for TRAnsistorized DIgital Computer), the machine was a mere ...

ENIAC, the mammoth machine credited with helping to start the computer age ... attention when he announced in 1942 that he thought vacuum tubes could be used to speed up the mechanical calculators ...

Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer.

While the first computers were mechanical and famously ran on vacuum tubes, there were other schools of thought that introduced a different kind of computer – one that ran on water. In the 1930s ...

Vintage meets contemporary in this DAW-controllable hybrid synth that blends digital oscillators with a tube-based audio path ...

Fewer will go back to the Intel 8008 or even 4004 era which were the first integrated ... of programmable vacuum tube machines. [Mike] has gone back to the 1950s with this computer which uses ...

[Usagi Electric] is breathtakingly close to having his Bendix G15 vacuum tube computer up and running ... the big green “Reset” button. The first attempt was stymied by a blown fuse.