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 ...

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 ...

The history of vacuum tubes in synthesizers goes all the way back to 1939: the Hammond Novachord, one of the first polyphonic synths ever commercially manufactured, relied on an array of 163 ...

Over the next three decades, vacuum tubes were pressed into service for everything from home radios to military radar. Even the first electronic computer relied on vacuum tubes—about 18,000 of them!

[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.