10 Apr
2012
10 Apr
'12
4:37 p.m.
On 04/10/2012 04:20 PM, Mouse wrote:
For sure, but those big NCD ones always seemed particularly good. I suspect
it's more a case that up to that point I'd only really used smaller cheaper
mono displays - and that other screens of a similar size were probably of
equal quality.
Neat... got me
all nostalgic for the NCD19's that were scattered
around all over the place at uni. I loved those things - the
displays were so crisp on them.
Single-colour tubes are like that. No shadow mask means, potentially
at least, very crisp precise display - dependent only on the focus
precision, really. I've got one? two? of those. Some one of these
decades I want to build
my own software to run on them.
Lucky :-) I did have a Tektronix m88k-based X terminal, but that was
colour and as you say the picture just isn't as sharp (although still a
nice enough little box, which I had booting off my main Linux desktop
machine for a few years). I'm not certain whether I kept it - it may be in
storage overseas still. I know that someone did dig into the firmware on it
and substituted their own ROM code to the point where it'd throw 'hello
world' up on the screen, but I don't know if they ever got any further than
that.
cheers
Jules