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Evolution of Monitors: by W. H. L. Dornette

The document summarizes the evolution of computer monitors from terminals connected to mainframe computers in the early 1980s to modern displays. It discusses the history of the cathode ray tube (CRT) and how early monitors resembled televisions without tuners. Screen size is typically measured diagonally, following the standard for early circular CRT televisions. Display resolution refers to the number of pixels that can be displayed. The document predicts future monitor technologies may include touch screens, holograms, and 3D displays.

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Evolution of Monitors: by W. H. L. Dornette

The document summarizes the evolution of computer monitors from terminals connected to mainframe computers in the early 1980s to modern displays. It discusses the history of the cathode ray tube (CRT) and how early monitors resembled televisions without tuners. Screen size is typically measured diagonally, following the standard for early circular CRT televisions. Display resolution refers to the number of pixels that can be displayed. The document predicts future monitor technologies may include touch screens, holograms, and 3D displays.

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Evolution of monitors

By W. H. L. Dornette
Contents
 History of monitor
 History of  Cathode Ray Tube (CRT)
 Screen size
 Display resolution
 Future monitors
History of a Monitor
 History Of a Monitor Until the early 1980's most monitors
were terminals. They were boxy video display terminals
(VDT's) combined with an attached keyboard. A terminal
could be configured to work with just about any computer on
the market. Terminals were attached to computers by a serial
interface. In those days, the VDT was commonly referred to
as a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube). Apple II computers and the
early game machines hooked to a monitor not a terminal.
These monitors - unlike terminals - looked like television
sets without the tuner. Then IBM came out with PC-DOS
computers, which were dubbed "three-piece computers.
History of  Cathode Ray
Tube (CRT)
 The earliest version of the CRT was invented by the German physicist Ferdinand
Braun in 1897 and is also known as the Braun tube. It was a cold-cathode diode,
a modification of the Crookes tube with a phosphor-coated screen.
 In 1907, Russian scientist Boris Rosing used a CRT in the receiving end of an
experimental video signal to form a picture. He managed to display simple
geometric shapes onto the screen, which marked the first time that CRT
technology was used for what is now known as television.
Screen size
 Screen Size The size of an approximately
rectangular display is usually given as the
distance between two opposite screen
corners, that is, the diagonal of the
rectangle. This method of measurement is
inherited from the method used for the
first generation of CRT television, when
picture tubes with circular faces were in
common use.
Display resolution
 Display Resolution The display resolution of a
digital or display device is the number of distinct
pixels in each dimension that can be displayed.
One use of the term “display resolution” applies
to fixed-pixel-array displays such as plasma
display panels (PDPs), liquid crystal displays
(LCDs), Digital Light Processing (DLP)
projectors
Future monitors
 Touch screen monitors
Future monitors
 Hologram monitors
Future monitors
 3D monitors
Thanks for attention

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