page_title: Direct-view bistable storage tube
hierarchical_section_title: Direct-view bistable storage tube
caption_attribution_description: Tektronix 4014 Photo by Jim Rees Dec 2001
context_page_description: Direct-view bistable storage tube was an acronym used by Tektronix to describe their line of storage tubes. These were cathode ray tubes that stored information written to them using an analog technique inherent in the CRT and based upon the secondary emission of electrons from the phosphor screen itself. The resulting image was visible in the continuously glowing patterns on the face of the CRT.
  DVBST technology was anticipated by Andrew Haeff of the US Naval Research Laboratory, and by Williams and Kilburn in the late 1940s. Tek's Robert H. Anderson refined Haeff's concepts in the late 1950s to produce a reliable and simple DVST.
context_section_description: 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) that stored information written to them using an analog technique inherent in the CRT and based upon the secondary emission of electrons from the phosphor screen itself. The resulting image was visible in the continuously glowing patterns on the face of the CRT.
  DVBST technology was anticipated by Andrew Haeff of the US Naval Research Laboratory, and by Williams and Kilburn in the late 1940s.  Tek's (Tektronix) Robert H. Anderson refined Haeff's concepts in the late 1950s to produce a reliable and simple DVST.
caption: Tektronix 4014 with a "DVBST" storage display screen
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