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Originally Posted by Zeke
Someone tell me what punk is saying. I won't look at his posts and I'm not taking him off ignore.
That is if he has anything useful to say.  |
Basically confirming what I said, the first computers used tubes (because transistors were still being perfected and microprocessors had not yet been invented).
However tubes are so large and inefficient it took a whole room of tubes to make a computer with the power of a modern calculator... and if one tube failed the 'computer' would stop working.
Actually I will have to contradict myself... the first computers worked on gears... no I am not kidding.