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    In electronics, a Dekatron (or Decatron, or generically three-phase gas counting tube or glow-transfer counting tube or cold cathode tube) is a gas-filled...
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    The Harwell computer, or Harwell Dekatron computer, later known as the Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computing from Harwell (WITCH), is an early...
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    Video camera tube Williams tube Gas-filled tubes Cold cathode Crossatron Dekatron Ignitron Krytron Mercury-arc valve Neon lamp Nixie tube Thyratron Trigatron...
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    Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, UK built the Harwell Dekatron Computer in 1951, which was an automatic calculator where the decimal arithmetic...
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    As well as first generation computers including the original Harwell Dekatron computer – the world's oldest working digital computer – Mainframe computers...
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  • Lighting system Neon and argon lamps – Light source based on gas discharge Dekatron – Early and obsolete type of computer memory Nixie tube – Electronic numeric...
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    Obsolete: Incandescent filament 7 segment display (aka 'Numitron') Nixie tube Dekatron (aka glow transfer tube) Magic eye tube indicator Penetron (a 2 colour...
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    and a 2-state ring counter). A few tube computers -- such as the Harwell Dekatron Computer -- use a single Decatron tube per decimal digit. Early systems...
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    Video camera tube Williams tube Gas-filled tubes Cold cathode Crossatron Dekatron Ignitron Krytron Mercury-arc valve Neon lamp Nixie tube Thyratron Trigatron...
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    Delay-line memory (1947) Mellon optical memory (1951) Selectron tube (1952) Dekatron T-RAM (2009) Z-RAM (2002–2010) Non-volatile ROM Diode matrix MROM PROM...
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