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jandresetoday at 7:24 PM0 repliesview on HN

Over on Youtube the Usagi Electric channel has several videos about reviving old vacuum tube computers and one of the interesting aspects is that tube failures are much less of an issue than the germanium diodes. The tubes are large and dramatic, but they're heavily outnumbered by the diodes. It was such a problem that the company built specialized test equipment that could identify bad diodes on the cards.