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Yet there is also the Friden electronic, fully electronic but simply amazing for it's time (1965?): It had CRT vector display of numbers ... For 1965 on a tabl
by flavio81 9y ago
Yet there is also the Friden electronic, fully electronic but simply amazing for it's time (1965?):
It had CRT vector display of numbers ... For 1965 on a table-top model!
And memory was realized via a mechanic delay line, where the bits traveled around a loop, mechanically!
- jacquesm 9y agoI just spent an hour reading that same entry, absolutely amazing tech for the time and that they got that to work reliably enough for a mass market product is really amazing engineering.