[HN Gopher] GM's Futuristic '80s Digital Displays - This Man Fig...
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       GM's Futuristic '80s Digital Displays - This Man Fights to Keep
       Them Alive
        
       Author : AdamH12113
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2024-04-19 18:15 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theautopian.com)
        
       | aleksiy123 wrote:
       | I love these retro future displays and UIs.
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       | Something super satisfying about the colors and contrast.
        
         | staticfish wrote:
         | Often because (as in this case as well) they are not regular
         | LCD or calculator-like segmented displays, but rather Vacuum
         | Florissant Displays. VERY satisfying hue they emit.
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         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_fluorescent_display
        
       | rasz wrote:
       | In recent Etak article comments webstrand linked to this gem:
       | "INFORMATION DISPLAY - The Official Journal of the Society for
       | Information Display" JULY 1985 VOL.1 No.7
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       | http://archive.informationdisplay.org/Portals/InformationDis...
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       | Page 17 has an article on 1985 Chrysler H-body VFD cluster.
        
       | selimnairb wrote:
       | I bet the UI latency was lower than current infotainment systems.
        
       | hcarvalhoalves wrote:
       | These displays made your car look like a proper fighter plane.
       | Today we get a tablet slapped onto the dashboard :(
        
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