Monitor History ?

[-SZ-Vladimir 0]

Hi all

I'm searching for informations about Monitor History from the beginning to today. I need these informations for a schoolwork. I did not find informations on hardware website or with a research on google, so maybe you have informations or links whiche can help me.

Thanks

Vladimir

[der bastler 0]

Google: just use the right keywords...

Let's try old graphics standards...

"cga ega vga svga xga monitor history"

-> 3rd entry: http://bugclub.org/beginners/history/MonitorsHistory.html

Let's get more detailed:

"computer cathode ray tube history"

-> 15th entry: http://accad.osu.edu/~waynec/history/timeline.html

[shinRaiden 0]

They dump out black burnt pcb(?) smoke if you run them above 90f (32c) continually.

Anyway, how far back were you planning to go? What's the scope on your research? CRT technology fades back into some really old and esoteric Vacuum tube history, since that's what they are.

If you're looking for some light reading, send a request here.

Basically though all you are doing is electromagnetically steering an electron beam into a phospher array, and that is old school. Some notes here and here and here.

- edit -

You're forgetting Hercules, Tandy, and all the various Composite formats. But that's just signalling from the PC and resolution on the Monitor. Well, iirc EGA used defined pixels and VGA just did streams, but that's been a while. There's also the weird component systems still used on Sun and SGI workstations as well.

But all that is side-topics, such as text-mode vs graphics-mode. The best thing to have on an old DOS box was a little app that switched the console from 40x25 to 80x43, iirc on the character scale. Running Xtree or DOSSHELL in that mode was cool, and you can do it too on linux with the right boot-time params.

[der bastler 0]

But all that is side-topics, such as text-mode vs graphics-mode. The best thing to have on an old DOS box was a little app that switched the console from 40x25 to 80x43, iirc on the character scale. Running Xtree or DOSSHELL in that mode was cool, and you can do it too on linux with the right boot-time params.

I like my boot screen... graphical textmode

http://www.ofp-zone.de/bastler/rl_photo/gensplash.jpg

[-SZ-Vladimir 0]

I don't need to get to much in details and what you gived me is enough

Thank you for you help !

Vladimir