CDC 6600 display character generation

Mark J. Blair nf6x at nf6x.net
Thu Jun 7 10:19:28 CDT 2018


> On Jun 6, 2018, at 11:50 PM, Rick Bensene via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> Believe me, the console did spit out a lot of sparks and little blobs of
> molten metal, along with quite a bit of smoke.  I still have a small
> scar on my left leg where one of the little blobs of metal burned me
> after burning through the material of my slacks.

This reminds me of every TV show and movie I've seen where consoles begin exploding on a space ship during a battle. All of this time, I thought that was entirely a Hollywood fabrication!


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