Schematics of Atanasoff-Berry Computer logic circuits?

William Donzelli wdonzelli at gmail.com
Tue Sep 2 11:53:01 CDT 2008


>   Did all the tubes disappear or something?  LOTS AND LOTS of tubes were
> made during their heyday.  I know a few people who have hundreds, and in one
> case thousands of tubes, and I've got a few dozen myself.  Don't be
> paranoid, Ben. ;)

I am down to about 10,000. At peak, I had roughly 40,000.

And I am small potatoes...

Some tubes did disappear. I pity the man that wants to get a power
supply for an IBM 709 up and running. C16Js, in used UNTESTED
condition, go for a few hundred bucks. If you can find them.

Same with anyone that gets a computer using 6386 dual triodes.

--
Will


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