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Quote: Research scientists from Zenith Radio recently unveiled their version of a thin TV display panel whose 5/8" thickness produces a picture that, except for brightness, rivals that of a conventional CRT.
The experimental unit uses a Burroughs "Self-Scan" panel consisting of 80 columns and 212 rows of gas cells, at present producing a red picture due to the neon gas used. At the present state of development, the panel has a peak luminance of 8 foot-lamberts, and a contrast ratio of 40:1.
In operation (see at left), a full line of cells is addressed at the same time and the incoming video is stored in 80 individual capacitors that control the current sources for each column. Modulating these currents produces a wide-range linear gray scale.
Cool, huh? It's only 5/8 inches thick, red 'grayscale' image and a resolution of 80 x 212! The good old CRTs are doomed.
The interesting part is that this was published in Popular Electronics, issue 1/1973[^]. What might have become of this? Well, today we don't call these 'thin TV display panels' anymore. They now are called plasma screens.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Thanks.
"The future aint what it used to be."
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Used to love Popular Electronics and Popular Mechanics.
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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From the PDF: According to the Manpower Report of the President delivered to the Congress early this year, there will be an average demand for 48,000 engineering graduates each year to meet the nation's man- power needs between now and 1980
I wonder how it is that today
From the PDF: The super computer uses 64 high-speed processing units, working data simultaneously. As many as 200 million instructions per second can be processed, which is some 15 to 20 times faster than the largest conventional computers, and is equivalent to processing the names of New York's eight million people 25 times every second.
 and that before I was born 
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Just imagine: Understanding something and building it yourself, instead of being herded to a fanboyish marketing event. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: Understanding something and building it yourself, instead of being herded to a fanboyish marketing event.
I am not that young... don't need to imagine it. A neighbor and me built a radio in a cookies box using the parts of some devices we found in the trash, if I recall it correctly we were 13 or 14 years old back then.
Or repaired my walkman using pieces of other devices. That was cool, you could reuse almost everything. Now, you can't reuse old things, not even within the same branch  
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Nelek wrote: I am not that young... don't need to imagine it.
I know, that's why I wrote it. But what happened to the curious kids that wanted to know everything when they were 10 until the hormones kicked in? Don't fathers build something with them anymore?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I don't know the others... but I will try to teach my daughter how to do it. If she wants a computer... she will build it on her own, with my help but her hands.
At least once... to know what it means, how it feels and then decide based on experience. If she doesn't like it, then I won't force it anymore and I will take it over.
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Been there, done that: two sons. Unfortunately, it is a commodity market, roughly equivalent to raising chickens to gather the eggs. Certainly, some value in the experience and somewhat better tasting product, but a vast time expenditure compared to going to the store and plopping down a dollar and taking a dozen home.
I do believe my sons are above average problem-solvers because of the electronics experience, but they did not necessarily come away with the appreciation that I had hoped they would. For them, all of my "antique" computer equipment is just that - antiques, best viewed in a museum rather than up close and personal.
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I fear it will be similar for me. My daugther is still very young, so when she gets that far... probably technic will have evolve another round and be a bit different than now.
But I think I will still have a try.
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Planned Obsolescence at it's worst...
The barbarians are inside the gates!
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Stopping me from doing that? A small army of nagging females could not accomplish that yet.
Quote: Either this computer leaves, or I will!
Well, the computer is still here. Bye!
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Yeah, let's not say anything against CRTs. I still have my first computer monitor. It must be from 1979 and it still works.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: Yeah, let's not say anything against CRTs. I still have my first computer monitor. It must be from 1979 and it still works.
Do you happen to glow in the dark?
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Who cares? Look where I once worked.[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Ok, so you might have other reasons for glowing in the dark. CRTs are the least of your problems.
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Quote: Tom Paris:
"Here lies Thomas Eugene Paris, Beloved Mutant."
The Doctor:
A fitting epitaph, but I don't intend to let you use it just yet.
Kes:
Radiometric emitters are charged and ready.
The Doctor:
Begin with 45 rads per second.
Tom Paris:
Great. Now it'll read "Beloved Radioactive Mutant."
Before I ever got my hands on a radar, the doctor already had discovered that I am a mutant anyway. It does not give me any notable superpowers, so the X Men will probably not take me.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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So...any kids? And do they have superpowers...?
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Nope.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: Well, today we don't call these 'thin TV display panels' anymore. They now are called plasma screens.
Plasma isn't even sold in stores anymore, unless it's old inventory from years ago.
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Fine, but how long did it take from 1973 for them to hit the stores?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Roughly the same amount of time it took for LED TVs? Not sure if this is a trick question. They both appeared at roughly the same time (give or take less than half a decade)[*]. Plasma has now all but disappeared.
[*] I'm talking about making it to mainstream, that is.
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Nineteen.F***ing.Seventy.Three.
Can we agree that it took another 25 years until we finally got to see the first flat screens of any sort? CRTs held themselves decades after vacuum tubes had disappeared into the museums. How long would it have to be to make you raise an eyebrow? Since 1873? And who cares that we have invented 1000 other approaches since then?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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