14 Feb
2008
14 Feb
'08
9:21 a.m.
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 11:58 -0500, William Donzelli wrote:
Why do you suppose they barely worked? Because no-one could make them,
or because no-one had figured out what to make them out of?
I'm going to go with the latter.
Gordon
It does
actually say "modern knowledge" - so presumably you could use
any kind of component you can construct. How hard is a dekatron to
make?
I am sitting here, reading this thread, and am astounded by what
people think tubes could do back in 1906. It would have been
*impossible* to make any sort of computing device using the technology
of the time. You would have better luck porting OS/2 to a 709.
Tubes back then barely worked. When they did work, they barely
amplified. And you were lucky to get 50 hours out of them. A try
getting two that were vaguely similar electrically. And then try to
find someone that actually knew how the things worked.