Talk:Vacuum tube
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I'm glad that it was used in ENIAC, but HOW was it used? Can anyone give a short and simple explanation, what's its function?
- Sure! Vacuum tubes with three (triode) or more electrodes are amplifiers, amplifiers can be wired as switches and logic gates, logic gates are what makes up a CPU. Using a vacuum tube as a logic gate is very, very inefficient and impractical, though. Transistors are much better. :-) --George Gesslein II (talk) 12:10, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
We are editing this article for educational purposes. We plan to expand the article by adding sections explaining how vacuum tubes work and mentioning different types of vacuum tubes. We plan to explain the "Edison Effect", which led to the invention of the vacuum tube. As well as this, we plan to clean up the article - the only source cited redirects to a blank page, and some links lead to Simple English Wikipedia articles that do not exist (such as John Ambrose Fleming and Lee De Forest). We fully intend to fix these errors and tie up all "loose ends" in the article. We also plan to update this article by adding a schematic symbol of a vacuum tube, adding more examples of vacuum tubes in modern technology, and adding more links within the article. We also intend to check facts and simplify overly complex language. Lastly, we plan to add more reliable sources, references and links. 5df4smscc7 (talk) 18:34, 7 May 2015 (UTC)