Chilling Chips: A Computer Cooling Chronicle

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  @thecianinator · 1 year ago

  "with Hitachi waving its magic wand" never change, asianometry

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  @AvgAtBes2 · 1 year ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqdZHUDl2PE&amp;t=893">14:53</a> Hitachi&apos;s Magic Wa-? Oh...

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• KA

  @ka9dgx · 1 year ago

  When the military took over the ENIAC, the &nbsp;tube failure rate went through the roof. Unlike it&apos;s previous use, they decided to turn it off while it wasn&apos;t being guarded/used at night.... so every morning, thermal stresses took out a few tubes. &nbsp;Once they went back to 24/7 guard/operation, the failure rate went back to normal.

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• PA

  @parkerbond9400 · 1 year ago

  Here so early I still think transistors don&apos;t produce heat

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  @stancil80d · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqdZHUDl2PE&amp;t=1500">25:00</a> Tempura batter: the secret to light and crispy deep-fried chips.

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  @shawnrehurek4543 · 1 year ago

  Hitachi &quot;waving it&apos;s Magic Wand&quot; ! We see what you did there...

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  @fecampos88 · 1 year ago

  today i learned that packing things tightly together is always the answer

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• TM

  @tmappe · 1 year ago

  The subtleties in this script were hilarious

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• TR

  @tristanwegner · 1 year ago (edited)

  Calling transistors &quot;Non heating&quot; made a lot of sense compared to vacuum tubes, which had a dedicated connection to run the internal heater for the cathode, so it could emit electrons. Vacuum tubes NEEDED to be hot (at least internally) to even work, whereas a Transistors works great a room temperature or even lower, and the heat output for the same logic performance is miniscule compared to the tubes.

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• CH

  @Chris_Grossman · 1 year ago

  I have worked on chips that integrated the cooling water loop into the chip to bring the cooling closer to the transistors. &nbsp;Yes water flowing through chips.

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  @majorbric4527 · 1 year ago

  can&apos;t believe youtube would hide this from me for a whole minute

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  @solarlaura3355 · 1 year ago

  I remember the advent of transistors. DIY projects were cheaper and simpler because &quot;the heater&quot; did not need to be wired up or powered. The tube industry fought back by bringing out cold cathode tubes, but it was too little , too late.

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