On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:13:59 -0400, you wrote:

>Ask and ye shall receive...
>http://images.google.com/images?q=3Dcharactron&hl=3Den&lr=3D&ie=3DUTF-8&=
safe=3Doff&sa=3DN&tab=3Dwi
>
>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.

On the subject of clever glassware, how about a glass A/D converter, and =
also a 256 bit memory :
 http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/glassadc.html

And an all-analogue character generator
http://www.cathodecorner.com/crtgen.html

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