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Re:IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display by rbanffy on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @06:34AM (#39368694)
What's really cool in the Uniscope is that it's a vector display rather than a raster one. Each character has, IIRC, 6 vectors.

I'll try to dig deeper into the specifics, because this might be an answer to a long-standing unanswered question at https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/41048/are-there-an...

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Re:IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display by masswerk on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @09:28AM (#39370140)
Quite interesting is the apparently bit-mapped dark-on-light ("paper green"?) monitor shown in that thread ("CMC DSKY And State Buffer Monitor"). Also interesting to see these various technologies side by side.
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Re:IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display by rbanffy on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @02:24PM (#39374003)
NASA surely must be a wild place - I wish I could work there. Must have been even wilder in the 60's and 70's with all that bleeding edge technology.
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