Anyone know anything about old TEC Terminals?

On 6/6/07, Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org> wrote: I haven't done much (any?) high-intensity gaming on LCDs - just old-school games like Master of Orion or Starcraft (or Zork ;-) so I can't comment on LCD smear, though I know abstractly it's an issue. Personally, though, I've spent a lot of time in the past four years in front of LCDs - more than CRTs (laptops, modern flat panels, etc). I happen to be on an older Sun monitor at the moment, and it's annoyingly fuzzy at 1152x900 compared to my 1024x768 laptop. The CRT is properly adjusted and looks just as good as the day it shipped (or at least as good as my memories from 10 years ago). It's just not as sharp as a modern LCD. I recall that older (640x400 and 800x600) LCDs aren't as sharp as modern ones, either; they've really crisped up the black and have, as far as I can tell, thinner or optically better front-glass to minimize pixel diffusion. That having been said, though, I would still prefer a CRT for old-school arcade games... who wants crisp edges on Space Invaders or Pacman (or Boot Hill, Seawolf and the _really_ old-school B&W games). I'm seeing LCDs advertised with sub-10ms response time. Since that's faster than NTSC frame-rates, I can't imagine that they look awful compared to a CRT. The question is, how fast is fast enough that it doesn't matter. -ethan