crt Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/crt/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Thu, 22 Nov 2018 02:13:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 http://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-keyicon-1-32x32.png crt Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/crt/ 32 32 146320098 The Pro Shop: CRTs in Medicine http://paleotronic.com/2018/11/22/the-pro-shop-crts-in-medicine/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/11/22/the-pro-shop-crts-in-medicine/#respond Thu, 22 Nov 2018 02:13:31 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=2249 Back in the 1950s, when your surgeon wasn’t concentrating on his golf swing, he was probably concentrating on his cardioscope – or at least you hoped he was! The cardioscope was essentially a specialised oscilloscope [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/11/10/emulating-the-tube-completing-the-retro-experience/feed/ 0 2127 CRT Trouble? Danger Will Robinson! http://paleotronic.com/2018/11/07/crt-trouble-danger-will-robinson/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/11/07/crt-trouble-danger-will-robinson/#respond Wed, 07 Nov 2018 00:45:40 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=2078 Danger Will Robinson! High Voltage! In order to work, a TV or monitor uses high-voltage currents which can electrocute you! For electrons to be attracted enough to the anode to leave the cathode in a [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/11/07/crt-trouble-danger-will-robinson/feed/ 0 2078 Shootout of the Video Game Systems: The Age of the Light Gun http://paleotronic.com/2018/11/02/shootout-of-the-video-game-systems-the-age-of-the-light-gun/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/11/02/shootout-of-the-video-game-systems-the-age-of-the-light-gun/#respond Fri, 02 Nov 2018 05:45:45 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=2026 The first mechanical light-gun games appeared in the arcades and midways of the 1930s. Following the invention of the light-sensing vacuum tube, companies such as Seeburg produced games that had the tube hidden inside targets, [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/11/02/shootout-of-the-video-game-systems-the-age-of-the-light-gun/feed/ 0 2026 The Entertainment Centre: CRT Television Through the Years http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/21/the-entertainment-centre-crt-television-through-the-years/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/21/the-entertainment-centre-crt-television-through-the-years/#respond Thu, 20 Sep 2018 14:00:38 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=1498 One of the original televisions offered for sale at the start of UK television service in 1936, the Marconi model 702 had such a long cathode-ray tube that it needed to be stood on end, [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/21/the-entertainment-centre-crt-television-through-the-years/feed/ 0 1498 Sarnoff vs Farnsworth: The Battle for the Tube. http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/13/sarnoff-vs-farnsworth-the-battle-for-the-tube/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/13/sarnoff-vs-farnsworth-the-battle-for-the-tube/#respond Wed, 12 Sep 2018 14:00:42 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=1465 GLANCING AT HIS MORNING PAPER, DAVID SARNOFF QUICKLY REALISED HE HAD A BIG, BIG PROBLEM. Sarnoff, the president of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) had spent his entire adult life rising up through the [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/13/sarnoff-vs-farnsworth-the-battle-for-the-tube/feed/ 0 1465 Paleotronic Issue 2 Web-Release: Celebrating the CRT http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/11/paleotronic-issue-2-web-release-celebrating-the-crt/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/11/paleotronic-issue-2-web-release-celebrating-the-crt/#respond Tue, 11 Sep 2018 01:32:03 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=1455 I GREW UP WITH THE TUBE FOR A NANNY. My day would start with Sesame Street, The Great Space Coaster, Reading Rainbow, Mister Rogers… and then later in the afternoon, trashy cartoons such as The [more...]

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