The vacuum tube strikes back: NASA’s tiny 460GHz vacuum transistor that could one day replace silicon FETs

The bottom of a vacuum tube, close upWay back in the salad days of digital computing (the 1940s and ’50s), computers were made of vacuum tubes — big, hot, clunky devices that, when you got right down to it, were essentially glorified light bulbs. This is why early computers
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