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minus-squareHexagon@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down26·1 year agoI’m sorry to ruin your story, but before semiconductors we used vacuum tubes to do the same stuff. (Well, they sucked in many ways: they were bulky, heavy, slow, fragile, and hot. But they could do logic gates and everything.)
minus-squareculprit@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoRight on, I forgot about all those multivibrators they made with vacuum tubes and such.
I’m sorry to ruin your story, but before semiconductors we used vacuum tubes to do the same stuff.
(Well, they sucked in many ways: they were bulky, heavy, slow, fragile, and hot. But they could do logic gates and everything.)
Right on, I forgot about all those multivibrators they made with vacuum tubes and such.