These computers were very popular and have plenty of parts and documentation available ... the era of programmable vacuum tube machines. [Mike] has gone back to the 1950s with this computer ...

Fair enough, that part sounds boring, but we hope to endure it at some point in the future because vacuum tube fabrication demos feel very much like a Hackaday event!

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 vacuum ...

Generally, when using a vacuum cleaner, we don’t think about the significance of its individual parts, leaving many ... of the hole in the vacuum cleaner tube: Helps save a lot It’s a simple ...