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    Direct-view bistable storage tube (DVBST) was an acronym used by Tektronix to describe their line of storage tubes. These were cathode-ray tubes (CRT)...
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    typically as long as power is supplied to the tube. A specialized type of storage tube, the Williams tube, was used as a main memory system on a number...
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    limitation can be overcome by the use of a direct view storage cathode-ray tube (storage tube). A storage tube will continue to display the event after...
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    digital storage device, and was used successfully in several early computers. The Williams tube works by displaying a grid of dots on a cathode-ray tube (CRT)...
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  • MANIAC II (category Vacuum tube computers)
    up as a paging device. It also had several ADDS Special-Order Direct-View Storage-Tube terminals. These terminals used an extended character set which...
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  • the Direct-view bistable storage tube, which went on to be widely used in oscilloscopes and computer terminals. 1922 Monochrome cathode ray tube: 1954...
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    with users directing lightning bolts and tornados against opponents in an environment affected by wind. Because the direct view storage tubes do not flicker...
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    different technological approach, which later became known as Charge - Storage camera tube. It was based on a new physical phenomenon which was discovered and...
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  • Wave Tube (issued January 6, 1959) Direct View Storage Tube (issued March 24, 1959) Backward Wave Tube (issued June 16, 1959) Traveling Wave Tube (issued...
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    video views per day. The choice of the name youtube.com led to problems for a similarly named website, utube.com. That site's owner, Universal Tube & Rollform...
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    display of the commercially produced ARDS was a Tektronix Type 611 direct-view storage tube, meaning that once graphics or text were drawn onto the screen...
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    including views that pre-date the YouTube Shorts feature, a YouTube Short with a duration of 50-60 seconds gains on average 4 million views as of 2025...
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    Charactron (redirect from Charactron tube)
    Aircraft Corporation for its type of shaped electron beam storage tube with a direct-view bistable storage screen. The Charactron CRT used an electron beam to...
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    JOHNNIAC (category Vacuum tube computers)
    Museum in Mountain View, California. Like the IAS machine, JOHNNIAC used 40-bit words, and included 1024 words of Selectron tube main memory, each holding...
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    5D optical data storage (also branded as Superman memory crystal, a reference to the Kryptonian memory crystals from the Superman franchise) is an experimental...
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    generating cathode ray tube XP – Photomultiplier XQ – Camera tube XR – Monoscope XS – Cathode ray charge storage tube XT – Memory display tube XV – Infrared detector...
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    systems typically use standard flat-plate type or evacuated tube collectors. The storage tank must be located above the collectors for convection to work...
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    to evacuated tube collectors in direct comparisons. Flat-plate collectors usually lose more heat to the environment than evacuated tubes because there...
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    traveling-wave tube (TWT, pronounced "twit") or traveling-wave tube amplifier (TWTA, pronounced "tweeta") is a specialized vacuum tube that is used in...
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    water/freezing point depressant solution in the inner tube. The inner surface of the inner tube is wiped using a mechanism which in the original Sunwell...
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  • many terms to describe its various magnetic disk drives, such as direct-access storage device (DASD), disk file and diskette file. Here, the current industry...
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    The Transbay Tube is an underwater rail tunnel that carries Bay Area Rapid Transit's four transbay lines under San Francisco Bay between the cities of...
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    exit tube is shaped to help decelerate the water flow and recover the pressure. Francis turbine (exterior view) attached to a generator Cut-away view, with...
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    the direct-gain type, in which the potable water is directly sent into the collector. Many such systems are said to use integrated collector storage (ICS)...
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    Procedures Handbook. Wiley. 6 August 2020. ISBN 978-1-55581-881-4. "Test Tube Guide and Order of Draw" (PDF). Guthrie Laboratory Services. June 2019. "Specimen...
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    aircraft tracking. At first, an array of Williams tubes—a storage system based on cathode-ray tubes—was used, but proved temperamental and unreliable...
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    drive (also thumb drive, memory stick, and pen drive/pendrive) is a data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated USB interface. A typical...
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    In computer architecture, the memory hierarchy separates computer storage into a hierarchy based on response time. Since response time, complexity, and...
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    Vector monitor (category Cathode ray tube)
    data. Other storage tube displays, such as the popular Tektronix 4010, use a special phosphor that continues glowing for many minutes. Storage displays do...
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    solid-state memory chips became markedly cheaper. The Tektronix direct-view bistable storage tube was first used in the Tektronix 564 oscilloscope in 1963,...
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