[Info-vax] Graphics cards and monitors, was: Re: VSI Software and Stark Gaming
Simon Clubley
clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Thu Aug 13 07:21:16 EDT 2015
On 2015-08-12, Paul Hardy <p.g.hardy at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> Screen of HRD1 was about a metre square, projected up from a postcard sized
> film plane. Note that it was a vector display not a raster device, drawing
> with a laser light spot bigger than the addressability, so only 10,000
> lines resolvable - still ten times more than modern commodity displays! See
> http://www.laser-scan.com/demo/laser-scan-history/.
>
That was interesting reading.
Thanks,
Simon.
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