25 May
2005
25 May
'05
7:12 p.m.
On Wed, 25 May 2005, Jim Battle wrote:
Tom Jennings wrote:
Ok, I'm sold. How do I find one of these terminals?
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On Wed, 25 May 2005, Eric Smith wrote:
Actually, it might be easy enough to be fun. There aren't many
storage method that are direct-readout of all cells! (It would
make a display too).
That is exactly the storage mechanism of the orange plasma display
panels used by the Plato terminals. I'm sure the individual cells of a
panel tracked each other quite well as compared to an assortment of a
few hundred thousand neon lamps. sustain
around 80V. [...] You could probably make a
coincident-voltage
memory from them... but they'd be slow I think, but pretty.
Sounds like a fun project!
Lessee... If the numbers are 80V and 100V...