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> It's a shame that circuitry is essentially a black box nowadays. Yeah, quite a shame that we have high speed low power electronics today. I pine for vacuum t
by jiveturkey 8y ago
> It's a shame that circuitry is essentially a black box nowadays.
Yeah, quite a shame that we have high speed low power electronics today. I pine for vacuum tube computers.
You get my point. Most advances come at a cost. The cost in this case is worth it.
- bitwize 8y agoVacuum tube machines computed with more pleasing harmonics, resulting in the output having a richer, warmer sound.
- bsder 8y agoAnd we all know that germanium is waaaaay better than silicon in your diodes and transistors.
- MisterOctober 8y agoI just installed a germanium Dallas-Arbiter Fuzzy Logic unit, and boy did I ever see some benchmark improvements
- bsder 8y agoOh, God, "germanium Dallas-Arbiter Fuzzy" isn't just word salad ... I'm dying over here ...
- nonamenoslogan 8y agoHow much HP exactly? If I put one in my Civic does it mount on the trunk-wing bleacher seat spoiler or to the muffler resonator tip?
- MisterOctober 8y agoAnd have you ever tried to compute the "Pride and Joy" algorithm using a silicon-based computer? Exercise in futility, to say the least.