We have occasionally featured vacuum tube computers here at Hackaday and we’ve brought you many single board computers, but until now it’s probable we haven’t brought you a machine that combined both ...

The earliest all-electronic computers used vacuum tubes, and most of us will know about machines such as ENIAC or Colossus. Vast machines that required the budget of a country at war to build, andfill ...

A self-taught electronics tinkerer called Mike recently shared details of his retro-computing project on Hackaday. It certainly is retro, as the design eschews modern computer component niceties like ...

Mike’s Tube Computer MK3 packs 460 vintage vacuum tubes into a working 8-bit machine that makes computing visible.

“Building tube computers has become an addiction, this is my third!” Mike writes on The Tube Computer, the site where he keeps notes on his vacuum tube computer. His first one ran on May 28, 2021, ...

In the 21st century, it is all too easy to take today’s powerful microcomputers for granted, and as artificial intelligence continues to make inroads, the assumption is that massive amounts of data ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This glass vacuum tube has one a ...

The heaviest portable computer was DYSEAC, a first-generation vacuum-tube computer built by the US Government's National Bureau of Standards in Gaithersburg, Maryland. DYSEAC, which was made for the ...

A cup of coffee and a story about a legendary machineThis is a column you can read in about 17 minutes. Please enjoy it as a ...

Vacuum tubes disappeared from electronic products years ago. Yet there have been some lingering vacuum tube-based products in production. The last major vacuum tube retirement was the long-lasting ...

A Cup of Coffee and Stories of Legendary Gear This is a column you can read in about 17 minutes. Please enjoy it as a piece ...