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The Tube Computer
The Tube Computer
It is designed to run a simple airship flight sim, flying around Brighton for the grandchildren, or a 64 bit Fibonacci sequence for the grown ups. It needs a complete redesign, maybe incorporating Schmitt triggers with some clever signal averaging but I also thought a second generation console could be made quite colourful. How do thermionic vacuum tubes work, how do you design a PCB, and how on earth do you get from a NOR gate, to a memory register, via microcodes from a clock, binary counters, and a ROM, to actually run software.
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