For those who thought flat-screen TV was a recent innovation, check out
this article from Electronics Australia (sorry, reproduction wasn’t quite as good then!). And
now look at the date: 42 years ago this month . . . and it was all done with 78,000 tungsten pilot globes!
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siliconchip.com.au
The snippet on the right side of this page also makes very
interesting reading: they were talking about the fore-runner to one of the most
popular TV tubes ever made – Sony’s mighty Trinitron (not TRI-nitron as some used to call it!).
siliconchip.com.au
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