vacuum-tube

Computation emerged not from processors or data buses, but out of the components and practices of vacuum-tube electronics in the 1940s.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

One is called Faster, Faster! and is a detailed description of a vacuum-tube computer named NORC (Naval Ordnance Research Computer) that occupied the ground floor of a building on West 115th Street in Manhattan (between Broadway and Riverside Drive) during part of the 1950's.

The most unusual book in your house. Ann Althouse 2009

In a humorous twist worthy of a Jackie Chan double-take, the Chinese take our old vacuum-tube TVs and CRT monitors, (each of which contains 4-8 lbs of lead), and bust them up with hammers in 'breaking yards' that employ migrant workers.

Giles Slade: A Drop in the Bucket: American Lead in Chinese Toys 2008

De Forest had also been unable to capitalize on his earlier work in vacuum-tube technology and voice-over-radio, over which he spent years in court fighting lawsuits and even staving off criminal charges of fraud.

March 12, 1923: Talkies Talk ... on Their Own 2008

Some products we tracked in our early years, like vacuum-tube radios and detachable shirt collars, have long since been relegated to the dustbin of history.

The more things change ... 2007

Inspired by an offhand remark in this post about vintage Soviet radios, Carlos and friends hacked a modern PC into the case from an old vacuum-tube radio.

Boing Boing: July 10, 2005 - July 16, 2005 Archives 2005

Some products we tracked in our early years, like vacuum-tube radios and detachable shirt collars, have long since been relegated to the dustbin of history.

The more things change ... 2007

I rather suspect that Eric was the belle of the ball, turning up with this, his prototype polyphonic vacuum-tube synth.

Archive 2004-12-01 2004

I rather suspect that Eric was the belle of the ball, turning up with this, his prototype polyphonic vacuum-tube synth.

Vintage synth geeks at play 2004

After Wen will come the Shanghai technocrat Wu Bangguo, sixty-one, a one-time specialist in vacuum-tube technology whose fourth ranking disguises the fact that he lost out in the competition for the premiership.

China's New Rulers: The Path to Power Gilley, Bruce 2002