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Tubes are sexy!

Rubycon

Rubycon

Madame President
Did I mention I love tubes?

I know this video has been posted before...

If I could do this I would in a heartbeat!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl-QMuUQhVM

Be sure to watch the whole thing! (part 2)

Making tubes from scratch with hand made tools. Does not get much better than this folks.
 
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without tubes the intarwebs would be much slower as we'd all have to wait for the dumptrucks
 
ElFenix said:
without tubes the intarwebs would be much slower as we'd all have to wait for the dumptrucks
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Thats more like tubing - you know the surgical stuff that's often used in primitive weapons like sling shots to shatter the windshield of a mad hillbilly that is chasing some ATOT'r that threw a brick at his truck.
 
thot we was talkin bout tubers hur

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This video got me thinking. I wonder how big a vacuum tube based computer would have to be to equal the power of today's average consumer desktop.
 
mmntech said:
This video got me thinking. I wonder how big a vacuum tube based computer would have to be to equal the power of today's average consumer desktop.
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So big that all the ancillary equipment that makes it a computer including power generation and cooling systems - it would have sufficient mass to have its own feeble gravity field and surrounding environmental impact would generate its own microclimate. 😱
 
Rubycon said:
So big that all the ancillary equipment that makes it a computer including power generation and cooling systems - it would have sufficient mass to have its own feeble gravity field and surrounding environmental impact would generate its own microclimate. 😱
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Not to mention the fact that it would run for about fifteen microseconds before you blew a tube and needed to send a team of workers in to replace it.
 
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Not to mention the fact that it would run for about fifteen microseconds before you blew a tube and needed to send a team of workers in to replace it.
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They'd have RAIT for that - Redundant Array Of Inexpensive Tubes. 😀
 
And people complain about coil whine from their video card when playing games with vsync off! This would be felt, heard, and seen in another state! :biggrin:

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Of course this popped into my head:
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Core memory would be mandatory on such a machine, of course....
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Just thinking. A Core i7 has 731 million transistors. Assuming (probably wrong) that one tube is equal to one transistor, and each tube weighs 100 grams... the processor alone would weigh 73,100,000 kilograms. Roughly equal in weight to the MS Sovereign cruise ship.
 
I remember the old "hifi" stereos with tubes that used glow after they warmed up. Everything sounded so much better better back then.

And yes, I realize that in 30 years someone who's 15 today will be reminiscing on how great 128kbps MP3 files used to sound on their iPod compared to the technology of 2040
 
dwell said:
I remember the old "hifi" stereos with tubes that used glow after they warmed up. Everything sounded so much better better back then.

And yes, I realize that in 30 years someone who's 15 today will be reminiscing on how great 128kbps MP3 files used to sound on their iPod compared to the technology of 2040
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My grandma still has one of those old stereo units with a tube amplifier in it. You know the old radio consoles that were like a piece of furniture. The thing is about 4ft high and 2ft deep. They got it in the 50s. Still works great. Just the turntable in it needs a new stylus.
 
I love my tubes, in the harsh winter of Southern California, I sometimes use them as heating appliance while enjoying my favorite tunes. :awe:
 
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