Bell Labs researchers were unsatisfied with the low reliably, high power usage, and large size of the vacuum tubes that needed to be used in the telephone switching and long distance trunk systems of the 1940s.
ENIAC was the first digital general purpose computer, built in 1946, and with 17,468 vacuum tubes. The Illiac I, the first computer built and owned by a US educational institution, had 2800 vacuum tubes. The IBM 604 had about 2000 vacuum tubes.
vacuum tubes are the switching components in the first generation computers to process data. later they were replaced by transistors.
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vacuum tubes help us today with many things. the most important 1 is techology. If we didn't have vacuum tubes we wouldn't have computers. just thik of a life with out computers or t.v. vacuum tubes are also used in radios. so if vacuum tubes hadn't been invented we would not be able to use all the techology we use today.=]
Vacuum tubes are not important for computer memory any more because we now use transistors. A long time ago however, the Vacuum tubes were important because they had the ability to regulate current flow through them, making them a feasible means for computers.
The transistor is a replacement for vacuum tubes, which is smaller, cheaper, and more reliable for most purposes.
It used 5200 vacuum tubes.
No, there are some cold cathode vacuum tubes. These do not light.
This would depend on the type of vacuum tubes needed. Any car part store will carry vacuum tubes for a car, general stores carry vacuum tubes for household vacuums, and AC part stores will carry vacuum tubes for the AC/Heating system of a house.?æ
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ENIAC was the first digital general purpose computer, built in 1946, and with 17,468 vacuum tubes. The Illiac I, the first computer built and owned by a US educational institution, had 2800 vacuum tubes. The IBM 604 had about 2000 vacuum tubes.
Vacuum tubes were first replaced by transistors, and later by integrated circuits.
Modern devices use integrated circuits instead of vacuum tubes because integrated circuits occupy less space than vacuum tubes, are more efficient, consumes less energy and are more reliable than vacuum tubes.
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Karl R. Spangenberg has written: 'Vacuum tubes' -- subject(s): Vacuum-tubes
Vacuum tubes vary from thumb size to larger than most people. Integrated circuits or ICs' are the size of you little finger nail. There was nothing worth remembering before vacuum tubes.
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