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The first CRT display was made in 1899, in a small workshop. Monochrome, of course. Required technologies: glass casting, wire forming, vacuum-pumps, sheet metal fabrication. Required materials: gl...
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I dunno. What was the resolution of that first CRT? Did it just display lines? I've played on one of the original Asteroids units at a museum. CRT with analog circuits and those beautiful, crisp, sharp and haunting white lines .. and that came after decades of work; well past the radio era.

Artisanal CRTs would be a huge leapback for last least a decade.
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Raison d'État · 5w
People think of Standard Definition TVs when they think of CRTs, but there's actually no necessary connection. Those beautiful, crisp, sharp, white lines in Asteroids are much older than television - the very first CRTs were vector-based not raster-based, and technically-capable of amazingly fine r...