26 Mar
2002
26 Mar
'02
4:19 a.m.
On 2002.03.26 12:55 Hans Franke wrote:
This was Tek's "Storage Tube" technology... or something like that.
We had a o-scope at school which used it... never got to work
with the computer displays that had it, tho...
-dq
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...