• Hexagon@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    I’m sorry to ruin your story, but before semiconductors we used vacuum tubes to do the same stuff.

    (Well, they sucked in many ways: they were bulky, heavy, slow, fragile, and hot. But they could do logic gates and everything.)

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      1 year ago

      Right on, I forgot about all those multivibrators they made with vacuum tubes and such.