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A vector monitor, vector display, or calligraphic display is a display device used for computer graphics up through the 1970s. It is a type of CRT, similar to that of an early oscilloscope. In a vector display, the image is composed of drawn lines rather than a grid of glowing pixels as in raster graphics. The electron beam follows an arbitrary path…
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| Armor Attack | instance of | Brightness was critical because the display needed to be clearly visible to the pilot in direct sunlight.Vector monitors were also used by some late-1970s to mid-1980s arcade games | 0.80 | text |
| Asteroids | instance of | Brightness was critical because the display needed to be clearly visible to the pilot in direct sunlight.Vector monitors were also used by some late-1970s to mid-1980s arcade games | 0.80 | text |
| Omega Race | instance of | Brightness was critical because the display needed to be clearly visible to the pilot in direct sunlight.Vector monitors were also used by some late-1970s to mid-1980s arcade games | 0.80 | text |
| Tempest | instance of | Brightness was critical because the display needed to be clearly visible to the pilot in direct sunlight.Vector monitors were also used by some late-1970s to mid-1980s arcade games | 0.80 | text |
| and Star Wars | instance of | Brightness was critical because the display needed to be clearly visible to the pilot in direct sunlight.Vector monitors were also used by some late-1970s to mid-1980s arcade games | 0.80 | text |
| and in the Vectrex home videogame console.Hewlett-Packard made a series of large-screen X-Y | instance of | Brightness was critical because the display needed to be clearly visible to the pilot in direct sunlight.Vector monitors were also used by some late-1970s to mid-1980s arcade games | 0.80 | text |
| the Vectrex 3-D Imager | instance of | Atari used the term color quadrascan to describe the shadow-mask version used in their video arcade games.Some monochrome vector displays were able to display color using periph… | 0.80 | text |
| Vector monitor | related to Color displays | Some | 0.60 | section |
| Vector monitor | related to Color displays | RGB CRT | 0.60 | section |
| Vector monitor | related to Color displays | In | 0.60 | section |
| Vector monitor | related to Color displays | Tektronix | 0.60 | section |
| Vector monitor | related to Color displays | CRTs | 0.60 | section |
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