20 Apr
2005
20 Apr
'05
5:06 a.m.
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From: "Wai-Sun Chia" <waisun.chia at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: OT Don't read this (was Re: Altair MBL source)
On 4/20/05, woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>
wrote:
They were mainly used as counting and display tubes- good collection
of such shown here--
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/electricstuff/count.html
Another fairly well known one was the Williams storage tube--
http://www.computer50.org/kgill/williams/williams.html
Probably some more I can't recall just now.
DaveB, NZ
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Scott Stevens wrote:
Wow. That is sooo coool...
What other pseudo-SSI tubes exist/existed? I mean for higher-level
functions; e.g. adders, counters, flipflops, decoders,....(TTL
equivalents). >If things had worked out differently we might
be using
>ultraminiature electron tubes. Imagine! An entire flipflop in one
>package!
>
They have them already --- look at Dekatron decade counters.
Also a nice example of them in action.
http://anita-calculators.info/html/mk_8.html