CRT implosions (was: Re: "screen mold")

Paul Koning pkoning at equallogic.com
Wed Oct 5 10:35:49 CDT 2005


>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Loewen <mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us> writes:

 Mike> On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Allison wrote:
 >> Actually earlier, the SAGE system used a larger 12 to 16 inch
 >> round with a 10-12KV Accelerator.  Heck look at the tube used for
 >> the PDP-1 Console.

 Mike> The SAGE consoles used a 19" Charactron tube.  ...
 Mike> From the Computer History Museum:
 Mike> http://www.computerhistory.org/VisibleStorage/images/102637043_sm.jpg
 Mike> From Ed Thelen's site:
 Mike> http://ed-thelen.org/sage.html

... or the SAGE programming manual on Al Kossow's site (in
pdf/ibm/sage), section 2.  Very nice description.

	       paul



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