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we threw away vacuum tubes and replaced them with semiconductors this made computers more reliable were the vacuum tube monstrosities not computers?
by walleeee 4y ago
we threw away vacuum tubes and replaced them with semiconductors
this made computers more reliable
were the vacuum tube monstrosities not computers?
- red75prime 4y agoThey were somewhat useful implementations of abstract computations, unlike "error in the first femtosecond" iron bar computer. And vacuum tubes also played a crucial role in the process of computation, besides introduction of noise.