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Self-taught tinkerer demos working room-sized Cold War-era

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

A self-taught electronics tinkerer called Mike recently shared details of his retro-computing vacuum tube computer project.

Source: Tom's Hardware · Opens in new tab