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Old 03-12-2012, 07:58 AM
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Originally Posted by gary View Post

By 1967, electrical engineer George Heilmeiser and fellow researchers at RCA,
were able to demonstrate a seemingly transparent piece of glass suddenly
show an image at a flick of a switch. Like magic to those who first saw it.
Yes, I can recall seeing this being demonstrated (on whatever was the 70s version of Catalyst I guess) and being amazed! My first calculator had those green tubes to show the numbers and was the size of a brick. But remember how difficult those early LCDs could be to read unless you held them just right in the light.
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