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This model comes with a vacuum tube, a blower tube, and a collection bag.
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Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Oct. 2024
Unlike the giant mainframes of this era, which relied on thousands of vacuum tubes, Simon was compact and animated by a handful of inexpensive relays—simple electrical on/off switches.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 Apr. 2023
The aim of the project is to build a high-speed railway that carries 40-ft (12.2-m) shipping containers in a partial vacuum tube at speeds rivaling that of flight.
—Joe Salas, New Atlas, 14 Mar. 2025
Thus, the most expensive components of the air defenses were not the radars or the weapons but the information system that would have been required to operate them, a capability that, in the era of vacuum tube computers, would have involved exorbitant costs.
—Stephen Peter Rosen, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2025
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Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Oct. 2024
Unlike the giant mainframes of this era, which relied on thousands of vacuum tubes, Simon was compact and animated by a handful of inexpensive relays—simple electrical on/off switches.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 Apr. 2023
The aim of the project is to build a high-speed railway that carries 40-ft (12.2-m) shipping containers in a partial vacuum tube at speeds rivaling that of flight.
—Joe Salas, New Atlas, 14 Mar. 2025
Thus, the most expensive components of the air defenses were not the radars or the weapons but the information system that would have been required to operate them, a capability that, in the era of vacuum tube computers, would have involved exorbitant costs.
—Stephen Peter Rosen, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2025
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“Vacuum tube.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vacuum%20tube. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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