Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcvax!enea!tut!santra!news From: news@santra.UUCP (news) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: An old fashioned memory technology, CRT's, how'd they work? Message-ID: <6700@santra.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Jul-87 03:25:31 EDT Article-I.D.: santra.6700 Posted: Wed Jul 15 03:25:31 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jul-87 06:47:48 EDT References: <602@madvax.UUCP> Reply-To: jku@kolvi.UUCP (Juha Kuusama) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 10 In article <602@madvax.UUCP> cw@madvax.UUCP (Carl Weidling) writes: ... >... how this [ CRT tubes ] can be memory. How long did the charges >last? were they refreshed? How was the memory read after being stored? >Carl Weidling I once had a tube where characters were visible for several seconds after the screen was blanked... Juha Kuusama, jku@kolvi ( ...!mcvax!enea!tut!kolvi!jku )