Modern Tube computing

From: ben franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Tue Jan 20 21:00:49 2004

R. D. Davis wrote:

> Relays don't normally glow, alas, but they do make nice sounds.
>
> My preference is for a digital computer using water instead of
> electricity, but no one's mentioned one of those yet.
>

Oh, a VALVE computer ... :)
I think that digital computing using fluid logic, was air based
rather than water based.I think Scientific Amercian had something on
it as well in the 1970's.
Received on Tue Jan 20 2004 - 21:00:49 GMT