Sunday, July 17, 2016

Tektronix storage tube terminals were cool



I liked the Tektronix displays in Battlestar Galactica and how they would glow brightly at the location where they were drawing.

http://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=298

Storage tubes were an interesting solution to the problem of how to store screen data: the screen IS the data storage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_tube

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