Talk:Tektronix 4010

message: Grg99 added all of this text to the article; I've now removed it to here. There's some good data here, but it's wrapped in a lot of PoV and some of it certainly needs references. Feel free to adapt it back into the article, but please be encylopaedic about it.
Atlant 16:04, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A lot of PoV, now removed 

message: I've still got a working 4014 in my office. I'll put up a bad photo now, and try to get a better photo to put up later, although who knows when I'll get to it. Rees11 22:30, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photos 

message: Shouldn't this be a 4010 article, with sub-sections for the different models? Maury Markowitz (talk) 22:26, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think so. Tektronix had a name for the family, I think it was 4010 Series something (Graphic Display Terminal?), and this article should have the same name. I'll check my old manuals. Rees11 (talk) 00:12, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! Maury Markowitz (talk) 21:59, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong name? 

message: There was an even earlier series of Tek DVST graphics terminals, such as the 4002.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.150.10.200 (talk) 01:58, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, the 4002 is mentioned briefly at the end of the article. Rees11 (talk) 13:52, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Predated by the Tek 4000 series 

message: Under Graphics Display -- "the CRT itself remembered the data"
The data sent to the scope was used only to drive the drawing of the vectors, lines draw from point to point.  Once the line was drawn, it persisted until the ERASE button was pressed, or an erase command sent to the terminal, as this article says.  No data was "remembered" or stored.  I suggest rewording just to say that the image or graphics persisted.  I understand that the paragraph started out by comparing a mainframe driven display, etc, etc.   But the conclusion "the CRT remembered the data" is unwarranted.  The data didn't shift, the paradigm did. :^)   I cringe when I read stuff like "the computer understands", etc.  BTW, I spend hundreds of hours on these terminals, even made an animated film using one.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnedwardmiller (talk • contribs) 15:36, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I suppose remembered is a little strange, but stored should be fine. It is stored in the static electric charge on the CRT screen. The vector graphics devices I remember had their own refresh memory of about 4K or 8K bytes, and didn't need refresh from the host CPU. The CRT is commonly known as a storage CRT. Gah4 (talk) 20:03, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "remembered" is used anthropomorphically 

message: A Note in the History section mentions that the 611 had a "very flat" display.  Yes, indeed.  It probably isn't worth mentioning in the article, but 611 faceplates (the bare glass) were a very popular item amongst Tek engineers and technicians.  If you needed something rigid (they were about 1/2" thick) and dead flat, a 611 faceplate was the answer.  The Production people knew this, and turned out many more 611 faceplates than 611s.  BMJ-pdx (talk) 06:12, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  611 faceplates