--- On Wed, 2/17/10, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
The picture
tube from an IBM 5151 display ought to
work. That's about
as long a persistence as they get...
Not even by a long shot. The yellow/orange phosphors
used on some
radar equipment could take many seconds to decay.
This is true. I'd forgotten about those. But, I'm pretty sure tubes such as those
were never used in computer displays.
-Ian