There’s still a mystique around vacuum tubes long after they were rendered obsolete by solid state devices, and many continue to experiment with them. They can be bought new, but most of us still come ...

Editor’s Note: Ever wonder how much those old transistor radios, valves, multimeters, or telephones you’ve been hanging onto all these years might be worth now? Well, wonder no longer: Steve Johnson ...

Believe it or not, every Radio Shack – hell, almost every drugstore – once had a tube tester sitting at the back, available for all to use. Pulling a bunch of tubes out of a malfunctioning radio or TV ...

We think of punched cards as old-fashioned, but still squarely part of the computer age. Turns out, cards were in use way before they got conscripted by computers. Jacquard looms are one famous ...