Hello, stranger. I’m glad you decided to join me on this impromptu tour of a somewhat forgotten era of computing: the time when Screens Were Expensive – and so computers had no choice but to use smaller screens, small screens, and even ridiculously tiny screens. Shall we…?
But I don’t know for sure. It’s an interesting question! Maybe @benjedwards or @ShortFormErnie will have a better answer.
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Part of it may be differing technology. Just as an example, the technology shown here is actually an early form of gas-plasma screen, the same kind used for the PLATO network.https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/1173832201298792448 …
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Other factors at play: TVs are designed for images, not text. Even today if you plug in a laptop to your 55-inch LCD screen via HDMI, the text will be hard to read because it’s not calibrated for that purpose. CGA had a color composite mode but text was hard to read in it.
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I wrote a big piece on the evolution of computer displays about 10 years ago which sadly has broken images now. But there's still good info in there -- the answer is in the text for slides 8, 9, 10. #10 is the real answer but the other two are the preludehttps://www.pcworld.com/article/209224/historic-monitors-slideshow.html#slide8 …
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I own the rights to all of my freelance work, so I'll probably re-publish some of these slideshows on VC&G soon
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