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Re:My dad's resume and skills from 1980 by no-s on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @11:40AM (#33332080)
> Who else can say they used a computer with two ROUND screens?

Hmm, that takes me back, heheh. I remember using some spanking new equipment in the late 60’s with round screens. I was just 8 or 9 then so my recall is unsure but think it was Digital. I do recall learning how to read and enter memory locations with toggles so I could cheat at Lunar Lander.

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Re:My dad's resume and skills from 1980 by rbanffy on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @06:30AM (#33341837)
The PDP-1 could be fitted with one (I believe you can play with it at the Computer Museum in Mountain View). The CDC-6xxx series had a magnificent console with two round screens (and vector graphics, although they weren't direct view storage tubes like the supercool Tektronix were). There were two such consoles at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle.
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