I'm not sure what you mean by "this computer" but vacuum tubes have the following problems anywhere they are used:
weight and size
Probably rate of burnout and heat. But this was common to all vacuum tube computers, not just Colossus.
8inchs
They are first generation computers because they used vacuum tubes as active elements, as did almost all computers until 1958 when the first generation is usually considered to have ended. From 1958 on most computers used discrete transistors as active elements until 1964.Note: ABC & ENIAC are both very early first generation computers as they used ordinary Radio receiver vacuum tubes, not the more expensive Computervacuum tubes that were introduced about 1948 to 1949. The later Computer vacuum tubes were custom redesigned versions and were far more reliable than ordinary Radio vacuum tubes had been.
Early transistors were much slower and far more expensive than vacuum tubes. Also computers built before 1948 there were no transistors to use at all.
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Computer tubes, also known as vacuum tube computers are programmable computers that uses vacuum tube logic circuitry. They were used to solve computational problems much like modern day computers.
First generation computers.
The same time as the early computers. They were large because their components (vacuum tubes) were large, not because they could handle large problems.
Probably rate of burnout and heat. But this was common to all vacuum tube computers, not just Colossus.
Answer Yes, you can. I think the answer is no. A physical object in a vacuum can have some energy/heat in it, and the energy associated with electromagnetic radiation can have energy/heat associated with it, but the vacuum itself cannot. ______________________________________________________________________ There is no such thing as a vacuum.
vacuum tubes
1944-1955
Probably rate of burnout and heat. But this was common to all vacuum tube computers, not just Colossus.
8inchs
vacuum tubes
First.
vacuum tube computers