# Tube based computing, why are we not funding this?

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**Created:** [October 11, 2017, 11:34am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/tube-based-computing-why-are-we-not-funding-this/1840 "2017-10-11T11:34:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![valdir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ecc23a/32.png) [@valdir](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/valdir)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 11:34am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/tube-based-computing-why-are-we-not-funding-this/1840/1 "2017-10-11T11:34:13Z")

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> **[Addition on the Strangest Vacuum Tube](https://hackaday.com/2017/10/10/addition-on-the-strangest-vacuum-tube/)**
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> \[Uniservo\] made a video of a tube he’s been trying to acquire for a long time: a Rogers 6047 additron. Never heard of an additron? We hadn’t either. But it was a full binary adder in a …

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**Author:** ![LowLevel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/lowlevel/32/48_2.png) [@LowLevel](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/LowLevel)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 12:38pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/tube-based-computing-why-are-we-not-funding-this/1840/2 "2017-10-11T12:38:35Z")

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Is it really called addiTRON? 😐

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**Author:** ![valdir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ecc23a/32.png) [@valdir](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/valdir)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 9:13pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/tube-based-computing-why-are-we-not-funding-this/1840/3 "2017-10-11T21:13:33Z")

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Maybe we are living inside a game after all.

Some more info [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additron\_tube](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additron_tube)

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**Author:** ![Caven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c68b51/32.png) [@Caven](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Caven)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/tube-based-computing-why-are-we-not-funding-this/1840/4 "2017-10-11T23:52:43Z")

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Tube-based computing may actually become a reality, but not quite in the way people might think:

> **[Vacuum channel transistor combines best of semiconductors and vacuum tubes](https://phys.org/news/2017-04-vacuum-channel-transistor-combines-semiconductors.html)**
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> (Phys.org)—Although vacuum tubes were the basic components of early electronic devices, by the 1970s they were almost entirely replaced by semiconductor transistors. But in the past few years, researchers have been developing "nanoscale vacuum...

If vacuum tubes and transistors got married and had a baby, that’s what they’d give birth to.