I remember seeing a few of these terminals at the Air and Space Museum in
Washington D.C. Circa 1980. It was the first time I had seen a display like
that, and I thought it was a foolish design, because the words would slowly
decay without being refreshed.

As I recall, the terminals were simply used as a quiz kiosk. I only remember
because the question had begun to deteriorate before I got a chance to read
it....





At 08:37 PM 8/24/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>On Aug 24, 2004, at 8:04 PM, Don Taylor wrote:
>
>> Tektronix used their experience in CRT's for oscilloscopes to market
>> some of the earliest CRT terminals.
>
>Some of the earliest GRAPHICS CRTs.  Tek had 1024x768 (approx) vector
>graphics displays based on storage tube technology when the "state of
>the art" for raster displays was 320x240 :-)  A lot of old engineering
>and scientific software supported the Tek displays, and support for
>it's protocols got built into a lot of early emulators and network
>software.
>(ie NCSA Telnet...)
>
>BillW
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