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This 8-bit computer plans to run flight sim and generates a 'pleasant homely aroma' by burning dust off 1950s vacuum tubes — oh, and it can explode at any time

A hobbyist built a working computer out of 460 vacuum tubes, and it needs 15 minutes to warm up

Self-taught tinkerer demos working room-sized Cold War-era supercomputer with vacuum tubes — takes 15 minutes to warm up and smells like burning dust, 8-bit design uses 460 recycled 1950s Soviet tubes

Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes