[geeks] Samsung 204B flat panel

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2006/09/11 Mon PM 01:15:57 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Samsung 204B flat panel

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>Sony invented the original Trinitron in the 1960s.  In contrast to other
>displays, it used a single gun with only a vertical grill, and a screen
>that was vertically flat and horizontally parabolic.  It made for
>sharper, larger, and brighter images.  
>
>I first saw a Sony Trinitron screen at NASA in the 1970s.

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The Sony Trinitron was the monitor used in nearly all the Apple ][ ads I saw in the late seventies...

Lionel