Modern Tube computing

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Wed Jan 21 02:44:48 2004

On 20 Jan 2004, R. D. Davis wrote:

> Quothe Rob O'Donnell, from writings of Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:51:45AM +0000:
> > >My preference is for a digital computer using water instead of
> > >electricity, but no one's mentioned one of those yet.
> >
> > Even sillier...
>
> That was not a "silly" idea; it was a serious idea, and I don't see why
> it isn't possible. It could have some very practical applications.

It's been done before. An example (THE example?) sits in the main science
museum in England (I forgot what it's called).

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