Back around the turn of the century, when I still had an enormous CRT monitor at work, I found it handy that the residual charge on the face of the monitor was sufficient to hold onto a sheet of paper. Could stick a sheet of notes from the lab to the monitor and enter stuff into various programs right beside the paper. Can't do that with LCD displays. If course, the entire computer can just go where the data is these days.
A visible built like this is quite amazing. Cool that there is a reference to the film Brazil in the article. It was my immediate reaction and thought when I saw this.
That said, there was a certain something about the clunk and clack of powering on and degaussing. The glow and the curve of the glass screen. The absolute strength of the solid glass front which you could tap or poke with impunity compared to the super fragile fronts of modern screens which I sometimes worry about when i clean that i might push or press too hard.
But i suspect the biggest losers at the demise of crt are all the cats who lost a nice warm spot to sleep and watch their human at work.
I know that Atari was terrified of selling the light pen because they feared little Billy poking a hole in the screen with it. Turns out it be unfounded. This safety /signal concern was why the Atari 8-bits have a substantial chunk of shielding in them.
Another interesting observation on this. When you open a classic coin op arcade game, the CRT inside doesn't have any cover or shielding and has the guts and yoke mostly exposed with no cover or shield. Just not what I expected.
That said, there was a certain something about the clunk and clack of powering on and degaussing. The glow and the curve of the glass screen. The absolute strength of the solid glass front which you could tap or poke with impunity compared to the super fragile fronts of modern screens which I sometimes worry about when i clean that i might push or press too hard.
But i suspect the biggest losers at the demise of crt are all the cats who lost a nice warm spot to sleep and watch their human at work.