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Nothing is cheating if it works! Absolutely possible to get a display. I remember the single color Textronix display we had in the lab in college. The computer

Nothing is cheating if it works! Absolutely possible to get a display. I remember the single color Textronix display we had in the lab in college. The computer club managed to get a Mandelbrot Set renderer distributed across the Sun 3 computers in our lab, plus another dozen or so at a lab at MIT, so we got display -- in color! -- in a matter of seconds. It was amazing. A friend of mine here was one of the first CDC-6600 system operators and programmers at University of Texas at Austin. A few months before I was born. He learned to really get a feel for the program flowing through the machine, hours of starting into those two huge round CRTs. The original Textronix 4014 was a single-display version of that, and there was another standardized display like that for air traffic control. Monochrome.

rbanffy 5y ago
The Tektronix had a "storage tube" where you could trace an image and it'd be "self-refreshed". Other vector displays, such as the IBM 2250 and the CDC had to rely on long persistence phosphors and needed to refresh the image quickly or it'd flicker. The CDC had to move the beam so fast the characters are deformed by the analog responses to x-y positioning. If you look closely at the screen, it has a Comic Sans vibe to it. > and there was another standardized display like that for air traffic control. Monochrome. I'd LOVE to see one in person. And to get one to play with. To be fair, I'd be pretty happy with a decommissioned 28" 2048x2048 air traffic LCD display.