World’s first desktop PC randomly discovered during house clearance
World’s first desktop PC randomly discovered during house clearance
It's not every day that a piece of tech history is uncovered, but don't go searching through your old tech hoping to find a hidden gem.
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That does sound rather ominous. The world's first in something should have a lot of information on it on the intertubes. It's old, it's nice,but the first?
It looks like a flat screen and not like crt, unless it is using some lights and a mask to display fixed characters.
Rather compact
Edit: first desktop computer featuring a single chip as a CPU
That's not a graphic display. This is what it looks like in operation:
It's basically a dot-matrix, apparently using some form of plasma? From a closer look at the grid
I think it might be like a Nixie matrix like this one:
But older, less refined.
That red dot display reminds me of something I saw in the late 70s but can't recall what. Was it commonly used on other devices?
While I was looking for information about the display I found a lot of references to similar ones used in pinball machines
so maybe that?
Today they've mostly been replaced by LED panels.
That is probably it. Thanks
Looking at it, I think it might be an one of those old mono LCD displays? The video makes it look like it's a bunch of small individual ones rather than a large continuous display.
Holy shit... it's a large dot matrix plasma display. Haven't seen one of those in ages.
https://hackaday.io/project/179986-plasma-display-mc6205
That project has pictures that show you how they looked/worked.