You could
probably make a coincident-voltage memory from them... but
they'd be slow I think, but pretty.
Not all that slow. The first plasma
panels -- invented at the
University of Illinois and used in the PLATO system terminals -- used
the display pixels as memories.
Yes-- and they were pig-slow. (I used PLATO in the late '70s, and even
then it felt slow to me.)
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