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From: mbutts@mentor.com (Mike Butts)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: ENIAC Query
Message-ID: <1989Nov14.020730.478@mentor.com>
Date: 14 Nov 89 02:07:30 GMT
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In article <Nov.11.23.03.48.1989.3337@porthos.rutgers.edu> webber@porthos.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber) writes:
> * [re types of vacuum tubes used in ENIAC]
> *     4,200 6L6 Beam Power
> *     1,300 6V6 Beam Power
> well, for sure, neither if these is what one would call "low power consumption"
> but then...
> *       350 807 (Enlarged 6L6)

And while we're on the subject...I wonder what's transpired since we
read about a year ago about micron-scale 'vacuum tubes' fabricated
in silicon.  I recall that at that scale it was claimed that evacuation
was not necessary.
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