cathode-ray tube
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“Are we doing retro-futurism? Are we doing the the cathode ray tube screens? Are we doing all of that stuff that in 1979 felt super futuristic, and to us now, feels like 1979?” he says.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2025
“It’ll come sooner,” he said, standing between the computers controlling the sluice gates and an old cathode ray tube TV set.
From Washington Post • Oct. 30, 2021
Thomson’s cathode ray tube showed that atoms contain small, negatively charged particles called electrons.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
Behind a nondescript Manhattan storefront, Chi-Tien Lui is stockpiling objects many people wouldn’t think twice about trashing: cathode ray tube televisions.
From The Verge • Feb. 6, 2018
This display uses a five inch, high resolution cathode ray tube.
From Preliminary Specifications: Programmed Data Processor Model Three (PDP-3) October, 1960 by Digital Equipment Corporation