19 Apr
2005
19 Apr
'05
7:30 p.m.
Scott Stevens wrote:
>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
>I got my AT last summer at a surplus equipment
auction.
>
>
Wow ... they took their time to scrap it. I hope they did not want
original price on
it like some people sell things... What I had meant with that statement
was that
computer growth may have happed since IBM did not see a large market for
"personal computers".