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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