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dekatron

Noun

Meaning

dekatron (plural dekatrons)

(electronics) A gas-filled tube used as a decade counter in early computers and calculators.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

The Harwell computer (Dekatron), now at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley, was built in 1949 and is believed to be the oldest working digital computer in the world. Source: Internet

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