Neon bulb logic elements link?

[der Mouse]

>> You could probably make a coincident-voltage memory from them... but
>> they'd be slow I think, but pretty.
> Not all that slow.  The first plasma panels -- invented at the
> University of Illinois and used in the PLATO system terminals -- used
> the display pixels as memories.

Yes-- and they were pig-slow.  (I used PLATO in the late '70s, and even
then it felt slow to me.)

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