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Larry

(Richard Casady) wrote in news:49c969b9.9397015
@news.east.earthlink.net:

Eight bits, one byte, per tube.

I'd love to know the physics behind how they did that. Dual triodes, such
as 12AX7, 12AT7, 12AU7, or even earlier 6SN7 were used as latching flip
flops, but they only stored one bit...0 or 1. To get 8 reliable levels
would be magic. They did use a neon counter tube that had multiple
cathodes. Perhaps that is the "tube" that did a byte.