26 Mar
2002
26 Mar
'02
4:56 a.m.
Hi,
Jochen Kunz <jkunz(a)unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> said:
On 2002.03.26 12:55 Hans Franke wrote:
On this subject of odd monitors, who used to make a monitor which drew
the characters on the screen by scanning 25 lines and wobbling the spot?
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
This construction reminded me of
1970 style 'inteligent' terminals where screen buffer was more like a
code of some sort to be executed by the diplay processor which was a
micro code engine itself.
And that reminds me of the Tektronix ASCII Terminal I
rescued lately.
Characters are drawn only once and the analog "memory" display tube
keeps the dots fluoresceing. No screen refresh! This is one of the
Terminals where you can see that Tektronix is well known for
oscilloscopes...