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Inside a 20-Watt Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier from Apollo
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How did the Apollo astronauts communicate on their trip to the Moon, 240,000 miles back to Earth? They used a 32-pound amplifier, built ar...
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"Space age electronics": Inside a GE thin-film paperweight from the 1960s
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In the early 1960s, General Electric developed a technology called thin-film electronics. 1 These circuits were built from thin films of ...
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Teardown of a PC power supply
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Have you ever wondered what's inside your computer's power supply? The task of a PC power supply is to convert the power from the...
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Teardown of a logic chip from a vintage IBM ES/9000 mainframe
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IBM and its large mainframe computers ruled the computer industry for decades. But during the 1980s, mainframes faced increasing competiti...
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