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, Datavue)
Glow Transfer Counting Tubes (Dekatron, Nomotron, Polyatron, Mathetron, Mnemotron, Self-Scan Displays)
Beam Switching Tubes (Trochotron, Beam-X Switch, magnetic and electrostatic types)
Incandescent Displays (Mosaic indicators, 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, Carcinotron, backward wave oscillators, traveling-wave tubes)
Detection Tubes (phototubes, photomultipliers)
Imaging Tubes (NIMO, Vidicon, Saticon, Radechon, image converters, cathode ray tubes, Jumbotron and flood beam types)
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

Glass Insulators (telegraph, telephone and power line insulators)
Solid State Indicators (LED indicators, unpackaged LED dies)
Solid State Displays (LED and LCD character displays, intelligent displays)
Discrete Semiconductors (semiconductor diodes, transistors and discrete hybrid integrated circuits)
Monolithic Integrated Circuits (microprocessors, microcontrollers, logic circuits, RAM, ROM, PROM, EPROM)
Magnetic Bubble Memory (bubble memory and support chips)

Systems & Assemblies

Display & Counting Circuits (Nixie, LED and other display implementations)
Logic & Memory Circuits (tube, transistor and integrated implementations)
Aerospace & Defense Components (avionics, vetronics, flight recorders, gyroscopes, specialized equipment)
Clocks, Timers & Counters (military and industrial time measurement equipment, including mechanical types)
Electronic Test Equipment (meters, oscilloscopes, analyzers and signal generators)
Communication Equipment (telegraph, telephone and radio systems, including mechanical types)
Computers & Calculators (industrial, scientific and business systems, including mechanical types)