6 Feb
2011
6 Feb
'11
9:45 p.m.
Has it not occurred to anybody to take the 4014 serial drawing stream as the source?
There are only a few commands there.
I used it to plot roller coasters in a commercial program, COASTER!
Embedding the tek file was much smaller than including 3d graphics, I just plotted tek
4010 to the screen.
Randy
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Tektronix 4010/4014 terminal printer project
From: legalize at xmission.com
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 19:44:18 -0700
In article <4D4C3BB8.6000207 at axeside.co.uk>,
Philip Belben <philip at axeside.co.uk> writes:
More to the point, though, rasterising the vector
screen is exactly what
those old Tek printers did! They scanned the surface of the tube in a
raster fashion, and read out what they found there. I don't know how
well the analogue circuitry preserved the grey scale - my 4631 hasn't
worked since I got it - but done well, this could do pretty good
staircase elimination.
There is no grayscale in a storage tube monitor. There's charge
stored on the tube, or there isn't.
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