Ask and ye shall receive...
http://images.google.com/images?q=charactron&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&sa=N&tab=wi

Of course, the caractrons it pulls up are more for generating electrical
signals corresponding to the characters, similar to a CGROM, so they
don't actually have visible output, only input and output wires.

The real player video at the following link has a visual charactron, and
a demo of some of the stuff it can do:
http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/technology/sc4020/p002.htm

And if you're really interested in one you can get your very own for
$500 from
http://store.electron-valve.com/nos-1698.html

Pretty interesting what they came up with to solve problems.

-Adam

Philip Stortz wrote:

>really?  what i've always wanted to see is a characatron, i've heard of
>them and seen a couple of webpages talk about them, but no pictures (a
>characatron was a crt which deflected the beam through a metal mask with
>the character set and then deflected it again onto the part of the
>screen where that character belonged!  painful and amazing use of
>technology!).  i just love technology pushed to the limits, wish i still
>had my hp programmable calculator from '69!
>
>Igor Pokorny wrote:
>
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>>I wouldn't like to go deep back to future... Does somebody remember
>>LGP30?  1 Kbyte magnetic drum, about 60 lamps, punched tape input,
>>typewriter and oscilo as an output. I learnt it when I was 15 :-))).
>>Igor
>>
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