Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On 2025-01-31, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net <WokieSux283@ud0s4.net> wrote:
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   What few know is that early television goes back as
   far as 1909, with significant improvements in the
   early 1920s. Electro-Mechanical systems alas. Took
   Farnsworth to really sort it out.

As a pre-teen or early teen in the earlier 1970s, I tried to
build an electro-mechanical TV system with poster-paper disks
with pinholes poked in each disk.  I was too naive to realize the
small incandescent light bulb was nowhere near fast enough handle
even extremely low-resolution TV.

Around 2-3 decades ago, a book jumped off the thrift store shelf
and into my hands.  "Television Simplified" by Milton S. Kiver,
copyright date 1946.  Among other things, it talks about an
experimental 2-color TV system and has a photo of a double-neck
CRT.  Having adjusted convergence on TVs during the latter 1970s,
I cringe to think about how difficult it would be to converge a
CRT with two separate necks.

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