Ken Shirriff on Nostr: This vacuum tube module was used in an IBM programmable calculator from 1948. This ...
This vacuum tube module was used in an IBM programmable calculator from 1948. This module, called a "trigger", stored one bit of information. Let's take a closer look and see the module operate.
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