{"id":712,"date":"2010-11-02T18:13:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T23:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=712"},"modified":"2010-11-02T18:26:30","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T23:26:30","slug":"the-evolution-of-computer-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/712\/the-evolution-of-computer-displays","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of Computer Displays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/209224\/a_brief_history_of_computer_displays.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/pcworld\/computer_displays_small.jpg\" alt=\"Evolution of Computer Displays - A Brief History of Computer Displays on PC World.com\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PC World recently published &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/209224\/a_brief_history_of_computer_displays.html\" target=\"_blank\">A Brief History of Computer Displays<\/a>,&#8221; one of my most recent slideshow works and the latest in my &#8220;Evolution&#8221; series.  The piece traces computer display devices from blinking lights, to paper tape, to terminals, and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Wozniak\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Wozniak<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lee_Felsenstein\" target=\"_blank\">Lee Felsenstein<\/a> for help with a certain segment of computer display history &#8212; the era when computers shifted from serial terminals IO to directly outputting a video signal.  Our conversations were exciting stuff that I&#8217;ll explore further in future articles.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy it.  When you&#8217;re done reading, come back over and tell us what your first computer display\/monitor was like.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;<br \/>\nPrevious entries in Benj&#8217;s &#8220;Evolution of&#8230;&#8221; series:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/197429\/the_evolution_of_video_game_media.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Evolution of Video Game Media<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/188661\/from_paper_tape_to_data_sticks_the_evolution_of_removable_storage.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Evolution of Removable Storage<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/173033\/evolution_of_the_cell_phone.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Evolution of The Cell Phone<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PC World recently published &#8220;A Brief History of Computer Displays,&#8221; one of my most recent slideshow works and the latest in my &#8220;Evolution&#8221; series. The piece traces computer display devices from blinking lights, to paper tape, to terminals, and beyond. Special thanks to Steve Wozniak and Lee Felsenstein for help with a certain segment of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,40,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-computer-design","category-macintosh","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}