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World’s first desktop PC randomly discovered during house clearance (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[-] prenatal_confusion@lemmy.one 38 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That does sound rather ominous. The world's first in something should have a lot of information on it on the intertubes. It's old, it's nice,but the first?

It looks like a flat screen and not like crt, unless it is using some lights and a mask to display fixed characters.

Rather compact

Edit: first desktop computer featuring a single chip as a CPU

https://www.thebyteattic.com/p/q1.html?m=1

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 41 points 8 months ago

That's not a graphic display. This is what it looks like in operation:

It's basically a dot-matrix, apparently using some form of plasma? From a closer look at the grid

I think it might be like a Nixie matrix like this one:

But older, less refined.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 months ago

That red dot display reminds me of something I saw in the late 70s but can't recall what. Was it commonly used on other devices?

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

While I was looking for information about the display I found a lot of references to similar ones used in pinball machines

so maybe that?

Today they've mostly been replaced by LED panels.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

That is probably it. Thanks

[-] eyes@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Looking at it, I think it might be an one of those old mono LCD displays? The video makes it look like it's a bunch of small individual ones rather than a large continuous display.

[-] roadkill@kbin.social 18 points 8 months ago

Holy shit... it's a large dot matrix plasma display. Haven't seen one of those in ages.

https://hackaday.io/project/179986-plasma-display-mc6205

That project has pictures that show you how they looked/worked.

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