The Vintage Technology Association

Electronics Museum

Welcome to the VTA Electronics Museum. Components and instruments are grouped by device type and datasheets are provided when available.

Vacuum & Gas-Filled Components

Gas Discharge Tubes (Geissler tubes, flash tubes, hollow cathode lamps, laser tubes, specialized light sources)
Gas Discharge Displays (Nixie, Pixie, Panaplex, Inditron, Numicator, Digitron, Pandicon)
Glow Transfer Counting Tubes (Dekatron, Nomotron)
Beam Switching Tubes (trochotron, Beam-X Switch, magnetic and electrostatic types)
Incandescent Displays (light pipe, projection, sphericular and other incandescent character displays)
Filament Displays (Numitron, Minitron, Pinlite)
Vacuum Fluorescent Displays (VFD, Digivac)
Variable Indicator Tubes (Tuneon, magic eyes, vacuum and gas-filled tuning indicators)
Microwave Amplifier & Oscillator Tubes (Klystron, Magnetron, traveling-wave tubes)
Detection Tubes (photocells, photomultipliers)
Imaging Tubes (Vidicon, Saticon, Radechon, image converters, cathode ray tubes)
Spark Gap Tubes, Trigger Tubes & Passives (Trigatron, spark gap and triggered gap tubes, TR cells, vacuum capacitors, grid leaks)
Diodes, Triodes, Tetrodes & Pentodes (Thyratron, Nuvistor, Tungar bulb, rectifiers, computer, high frequency and other industrial types)

Solid State Components

Solid State Indicators (LED indicators, unpackaged LED dies)
Solid State Displays (LED and LCD character displays, intelligent displays)
Analog & Mixed Signal Integrated Circuits (operational amplifiers, D/A converters)
Digital Integrated Circuits (microprocessors, microcontrollers, logic circuits, RAM, ROM, PROM, EPROM)
Magnetic Bubble Memory (bubble memory and support chips)

Circuit Assemblies

Display & Counting Circuits (Nixie, LED and other display implementations)
Logic & Memory Circuits (tube, transistor and integrated implementations)

Instrumentation Systems

Electronic Test Equipment (meters, oscilloscopes, signal generators)
Industrial Computers & Controllers (minicomputers, programmable controllers, analyzers and development systems)

Primitive Devices

Glass Insulators (Telephone, telegraph and power line insulators)
Mechanical & Electromechanical Systems (Adding machines, telegraph equipment, programmable timers)