20 Jan
2004
20 Jan
'04
2:21 p.m.
R. D. Davis wrote:
The sockets :)
6N16B-V are computer tubes.
http://www.russiantubes.com/sale.php
>I have a new design (yes you read right) for a tube computer, probably
>75 envelopes, on my website. 20 bits, serial arith, drum memory but I
>later realized that switched-capacitor (aka DRAM) was actually
>historically acceptable since one was made (NBS "test" computer; the
>diodes were too expensive in 1952 but it was basically just a DRAM).
Somehow, I
can't find the money to make it. But I'm serious enough,
there's an assembler and simulator there (wps.com/projects).
What appears to be the most expensive aspect of the project thus far?