Modern Tube computing

From: steve <gkicomputers_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed Jan 21 14:11:58 2004

Wow, thats pretty good, and you did that on-the-fly
while sitting at a terminal too! You should supplement
your income doing some ad copy or at least an
infomercial!

--- Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com> wrote:
>
>
> Want to know why your computer crashes all the time?
> Because the one
> you've got is not using clean electronics! That's
> right, digital
> computers made with Integrated Circuits (ICs)
> produce inferior
> calculations, leading to subtle shifts and
> fluctuations that can cause
> rounding errors and ultimately cause Windows(tm) to
> crash.
>
> Instead, buy our nifty ENIAC (Entirely New
> Incredibly Accurate Computer)
> 3000 Computer system! It's based on vacuum tube
> electronics. That's
> right, vacuum tubes!
>
> Audiophiles have known for years that tube-based
> audio gear produces a
> richer, more vibrant sound than that offered by
> digital audio electronics.
> That's because tubes prouce a more clean signal.
> And the same
> effect applies to computing. If you're using a
> digital computer made
> with ICs, their resolution is not fine enough to
> handle calculations to
> the precision that modern computing requires, thus
> causing regular
> computer crashes. In fact, over 80% of computer
> failures in the United
> States [1] are attributed by Complex Random
> Attenuation Problems. CRAP
> is the leading cause of computer problems, beating
> out software bugs and
> even shoddy programming. Our all new,
> state-of-the-art ENIAC 3000 uses
> cleaner, more precise, vacuum tube logic elements
> that makes our computer
> hum. It's like music (coming from a tube-based
> amplifier) to your ears!
>
> Beat the CRAP out of your computer and upgrade to an
> ENIAC 3000 today!
>
> [1] Statistics from the Bureau of Universal Numerics
> & Computing (BUNC)
>
> (Ad paid for by Microsoft)
>
> --
>
> Sellam Ismail
> Vintage Computer Festival
>
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