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 ...

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 ...

The first wave of electronics was born a century ago with ... 1900-1950: Vacuum tubes are invented and perfected, resulting in radio, television and room-size computers. Vacuum-tube technology reached ...

Fewer will go back to the Intel 8008 or even 4004 era which were the first integrated ... based computers is a retrocomputing era rarely touched on: the era of programmable vacuum tube machines.

Sony launched the world's first non-projection, fully transistorized television, the TV8-301, in May 1960, about six years ...

A computer that used vacuum tubes as switching elements; for example, the UNIVAC I. See computer generations. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

and it was also used in everything from radios to televisions to the first computers. The audion, or triode, at the heart of the vacuum tube is what the transistor was built to replace.

The first mass produced and commercially successful computer, introduced in 1951 by Remington Rand. Over 40 systems were sold. Comprising some 5,000 vacuum tubes and weighing nearly eight tons ...