OT Don't read this (was Re: Altair MBL source)

Wai-Sun Chia waisun.chia at gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 23:33:34 CDT 2005


On 4/20/05, woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
> 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

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).

/ws



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