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World’s first desktop PC randomly discovered during house clearance (www.pcgamesn.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

That does sound rather ominous. The world's first in something should have a lot of information on it on the intertubes. It's old, it's nice,but the first?

It looks like a flat screen and not like crt, unless it is using some lights and a mask to display fixed characters.

Rather compact

Edit: first desktop computer featuring a single chip as a CPU

https://www.thebyteattic.com/p/q1.html?m=1

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's not a graphic display. This is what it looks like in operation:

It's basically a dot-matrix, apparently using some form of plasma? From a closer look at the grid

I think it might be like a Nixie matrix like this one:

But older, less refined.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That red dot display reminds me of something I saw in the late 70s but can't recall what. Was it commonly used on other devices?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

While I was looking for information about the display I found a lot of references to similar ones used in pinball machines

so maybe that?

Today they've mostly been replaced by LED panels.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

That is probably it. Thanks

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Looking at it, I think it might be an one of those old mono LCD displays? The video makes it look like it's a bunch of small individual ones rather than a large continuous display.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit... it's a large dot matrix plasma display. Haven't seen one of those in ages.

https://hackaday.io/project/179986-plasma-display-mc6205

That project has pictures that show you how they looked/worked.