Here's some video of the Dekatron and the tubes I took at the weekend.
The Harwell Dekatron Computer - YouTube
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Originally posted by Gibbon View PostNice link, I was actually taught from that AP (Air Publication). I did like the old analogue stuff. ICs left me cold.
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Originally posted by zeitghost View Post
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Originally posted by Gibbon View PostMy favorite circuit of all time is the pentode phantastron, found in many old radars. I particularly like the fact that you can only fully explain how it works by using -ve to +ve (actual electron flow) rather than the conventional +ve to -ve.
I didn't think that was going to help me pass any exams, so politely ignored the rest of the book.
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Originally posted by Gibbon View PostMy favorite circuit of all time is the pentode phantastron, found in many old radars. I particularly like the fact that you can only fully explain how it works by using -ve to +ve (actual electron flow) rather than the conventional +ve to -ve.
http://www.radarpages.co.uk/theory/a...ec2ch8p138.htmLast edited by zeitghost; 11 December 2012, 09:25.
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Originally posted by zeitghost
They are pretty aren't they?
I've got a ratemeter with some in & it's gorgeous
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Originally posted by zeitghostOoooo.
The tubes spin?
That's novel.
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I saw the Witch Dekatron at the Computer Museum this weekend. That's a nice early computer with those wonderful clicking noises and spinning dekatron tubes.
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Originally posted by zeitghostWhat?
This one?
Atlas (computer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You'm trailing parenthesis is outside the [/url] thingie, old chap.
It's a conspiracy
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Happy Birthday Atlas!
Happy birthday to the Ferranti Atlas! Fifty years old this week...
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