- bmonkey325 331 days agoI 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.
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.