CRT displays [was: computer graphics in the 1950s]
Philip Belben
philip at axeside.co.uk
Tue Oct 21 08:25:40 CDT 2008
Christian Corti, quoting me:
>> (The 4014 and 4054, iirc, drew the characters in a line draw font,
>> which meant they could be scrolled or rotated. I don't have either...
>> yet)
>
> The 4014 and 4015 draw characters like the 4006, 4010 and 4012. You can
> address any valid point of the screen to display a character. A very
> nice application for Tektronix terminals today is gnuplot ("set term
> tek40xx").
In that case, what was the terminal that drew text in line-draw font on
a big (4054-sized?) storage tube?
When Tony and I were at Cambridge, there was one in the user area.
Tony, do you remember what it was?
Philip.
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