CDC 6600 - Why so awesome?

[Jon Elson]

On 06/23/2016 10:28 PM, James Vess wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I was looking and found that the Tektronix 4010 is a calligraphic display,
> for which I found a video!
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IztxeoHhoyM
>
> Let me know if it bares a resemblance to the display on the 6600
>
>
It wasn't normally used in that manner, except for 
graphing.  It had a 5 x 7 dot matrix generator and would 
display essentially a similar way to a glass TTY terminal.  
But, if you had graphs, 3D drawings or fancy lettering, you 
could draw it stroke by stroke.  That was a lot slower, of 
course.

Jon