16 Oct
2008
16 Oct
'08
12:38 p.m.
not so big as
to be an interesting question. But if
we ask the question from a designer's point of view,
such as, "what was the first CRT display that was under
program control and was included for the express purpose
of being an output device?"
By that definition, the year would be not later than 1961 (when the PDP-1 and
its CRT I/O device appeared).