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Default 1,500 vacuum tubes for the first electronic computer.

On Mar 25, 8:58*am, Alejandro Lieber wrote:
A short film made by Google to celebrate Colossus and those who built
it, in particular Tommy Flowers. Colossus was the world's first
electronic computer, used for code-breaking at Bletchley Park during WW2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=knXWMjIA59c

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Alejandro Lieber *LU1FCR
Rosario Argentina

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Outstanding!!! I have to visit before my filament burns out!
BTW, what were the tubes used in Colossus...? I thought I recognized
an EF37A, a red one with a top cap. There were some others looking
suspiciously like some 6F6's I have.
Cheers,
Roger