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

[Dave Brown]

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


> 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).

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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