On 11/8/2005 at 5:36 PM woodelf wrote:
Well everybody likes 12 bits...
http://www.cray-cyber.org/hardware/Hardware.php
Forget TTL, go tubes!
Wow, now that's ambitious!
Makes me wonder, though. Around the time the transistor was in its
ascendancy, the vacuum-tube business came up with a couple of innovations.
One was the nuvistor--an almost transistor-sized tube; and the other was a
low-voltage tube used in automobile receivers that were specified for 12.6
volts on the plate (e.g. 12AE7 dual triode). These would be coupled with a
solid-state driver and power amplifier for a auto radio with no vibrator
supply.
The first would seem to make the scale of a digital computer more
attractive; the second would seem to substantially reduce the power
requirements. To anyone's knowledge were either of these two components
ever used in digital applications?
Cheers,
Chuck