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Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News Working with one such machine was a challenging task for Osborne, with its 2,500 vacuum tubes radiating heat and the risk of the reels of punched tape flying loose from the machine. Despite being one of the first people... [05 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.09.09
Round-Up Witch - the Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computing from Harwell - was based on telephone exchange relays and 900 Dekatron gas-filled tubes, which could each hold a single digit in memory. But now it seems that... [04 Sep 2009]
Photos: Restoring one of the world's oldest computers
Photo Witch - the Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computing from Harwell - was based on telephone exchange relays and 900 Dekatron gas-filled tubes, which could each hold a single digit in memory. Work began this week on... [04 Sep 2009]
Super-Kamioka Computer System for Analysis
White Paper A total of 11129 photomultiplier tubes (PMT5, 50 cm in diameter) are mounted on the inner wall of the tank. The Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) of the University of Tokyo newly established the Kamloka... [30 Aug 2009]
Support Plan Helps Steel Manufacturer Get the Most From ERP System, Plan for Upgrade
White Paper Borusan Mannesmann Boru (BMB) is the leading manufacturer of steel pipes and tubes in Turkey. To get the most out of its investment in Microsoft Dynamics AX, BMB takes advantage of Microsoft Services Premier Support for... [25 Jul 2009]
Photos: Robots learn how to get friendly with humans
Photo Here it's the brown tubes that form a frown as the robot's camera can't detect a human face. The robot has been jointly developed by Bristol Robotics Lab and robotic hardware developer Elumotion, after the former decided... [20 Feb 2009]
Kurzweil and friends launch Silicon Valley university
News Among them, he said, are vacuum tubes, integrated circuits, chips and microprocessors. Starting this summer, some of the world's leading thinkers in exponentially growing technologies will be gathering annually at Nasa... [03 Feb 2009]
Tech in pictures: The best of 2008
Photo In May, the gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons of post-World War II computing at the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain exhibition at the Science Museum in London. [11 Dec 2008]
Photos: Scots HQ is green office of the future
Photo These vacuum tubes are considered one of the more efficient ways of collecting heat from the sun. The vacuum layer means there is very little conducted heat loss through the tubes. The sun is also... [10 Sep 2008]
Beijing Olympics, Google Earth, BlackBerry Bold and more
Photo The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons of post-World War II computing at the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain exhibition at the Science Museum in London. [30 May 2008]
Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain
Photo The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons of post-World War II computing at the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain exhibition at the Science Museum in London. [01 May 2008]
Photos: Six unusual power sources
Photo The fuel cells are supplied with hydrogen from stored and pressurised bottles via the pictured tubes. Scientists are coming up with novel ways to power gadgets - including using body heat and even dung. [19 Nov 2007]
Adesso's Tubes Enables Fast, Secure File Sharing
White Paper Boston-based Adesso Systems provides a Web-based content replication and collaboration platform called Tubes. The Web services environment for exchanging data between a Tubes storage server and a user's... [03 Sep 2007]
Photos: Five unusual data centres
Photo The cells are supplied with hydrogen from stored and pressurised bottles via the pictured tubes. Data centres are big business, and as well as the usual anonymous buildings on the edge of town silicon.com has visited... [25 Jul 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: NGNs - real or imaginary?
Comment Here is a different perspective: as a young man I came into a world dominated by copper - twisted pair and coax - powered by thermionic valves (or tubes in the US nomenclature). Written on the Ipswich to London train and... [02 May 2007]
