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Article #2979Re: ENIAC Query
From: Ken Leonard
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1989 15:37
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1989 15:37
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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) I dimly recall ham transmitters that used a couple of these as final amplifier--at a plate power level of a couple hundred watts. Do I remember correctly, or do I have an advanced case of cranial decrepitude? What was ENIAC doing to need _that_much_ power in one stage of logic? Or did the builders include these just so they would have a place to fry their eggs in the morning? ------------ regardz, Ken
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!udel!burdvax!gvlv2!kleonard From: kleonard@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM (Ken Leonard) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: ENIAC Query Message-ID: <405@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM> Date: 13 Nov 89 15:37:56 GMT References: <38193@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <Nov.11.23.03.48.1989.3337@porthos.rutgers.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: Unisys Defense Systems, NISD, Great Valley Laboratory Lines: 16