Explains the principles of transistor switching circuits, highlighting their role in electronic computers. It contrasts transistors with vacuum tubes, emphasizing that transistors function as ...

Don’t feel like shelling out $5 for a fancy factory made calculator that won’t even do binary math? [Jeff] decided to prove his mastery of gates and his disdain for base 10 by building a binary ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--IBM's forthcoming Power6 processor can count to 10. That may not sound like anything special for a processor whose clock ticks at a rate approaching 5 billion times each second. But ...