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Re: Valves are NOT dead .....
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:32:01 +0800, "Rheilly Phoull"

I chuckled, anyway. ;-)
If you reckon that clock's complex using valves as logic elements,
think about the Colossus computer with 1,500 valves used by the Poms
in WW2 to help break the German Enigma codes
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer ].
That would have been great in the middle of winter!
Bob

Re: Valves are NOT dead .....

A documentary on UKTV history channel about Bletchly Park - the
codebreakers. One of the original codebreakers in an interview mentioned
that maternity leave was higher among female staff at BP and attributed it
to the removal of garments in the heat of the computer room!

Re: Valves are NOT dead .....

Agreed. I did some digging, wasn't able to substantiate the
claim. Sounds like someone's having a lend!
GB, I ran a web-based questionnaire the other day. Turns out that
100% of people have access to the Internet.
--
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the
entrails of the last priest." (Diderot, paraphrasing Meslier)
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the
entrails of the last priest." (Diderot, paraphrasing Meslier)

Re: Valves are NOT dead .....

True story: When i was a teenager, we had a water fight one day. I had a
twenty dollar note (paper) in my pocket. I thought the quickest way to dry
it was to place it on top of my old valve radio. An hour, or so, later I
returned to find a small pile of ash. Twenty dollars in those days was half
a weeks wages.

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