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Thread ID: 40198 2003-12-01 08:38:00 how do they make it... hazza (2704) Press F1
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196145 2003-12-02 05:00:00 Well as the Toyota advert says, "B*****"

You don't really want me to take my warped sense of humour elsewhere do you?

I try to make my own fun but I like to make fun for others.

Please note that I don't want to make fun OF others. 		Elephant (599)
196146 2003-12-02 05:20:00 > Basically if you like Babbage started the computing
> thing, by developing a machine to calculate maths,
> and it developed from there .

Actually Dave, following Babbage's lead, if you discount early tablet-based technology promoted by Moses (Inc), the first monitor was made entirely from Meccano, however there were serious problems with screen resolution and refresh rates due to the time taken to dismantle each image and construct the next . Constant arguments over whose turn it ws to use the screwdriver proved an added complication and the technology was not deemed suitable for mainstream use until the development of the Valium© refresh-controller protocol .

The use of Valium© based technology decreased controller conflicts however refresh rate was once again slowed by an unforseen bug that caused memory addressing problems at mid-screen point . These problems were not finally resolved until the first beta of the Lego monitor was released .

An interesting technological diversion in monitor technology was the Etch-An-Image but although this quite revolutionary product was a quantum leap forward in screen resolution, the refresh rate was even slower than the Meccano or Lego models and it soon disappeared from the market .

John Logie Baird was credited with development of the first rotary monitor but this too proved to be a false start as post-it notes would not stay put and several legal secretaries suffered severe nail damage and White-Out splatters, resulting in expensive law-suits that crippled this fledgling technology, and Logie Baird never really recovered his place in the fledgling monitor marketplace .

In 1897 German scientist Karl Ferdinand Braun Braun introduced a CRT with a fluorescent screen, known as the cathode ray oscilloscope . The screen would emit a visible light when struck by a beam of electrons . However he made no marketable product and his place in history was effectively gazumped in 1907 when the Russian scientist Boris Rosing transmitted crude geometrical patterns onto the television screen and became the first inventor to do so using a CRT .

This technology finally killed off Baird's rotary mechanical monitor in 1937, despite efforts by Luddite Technology (Inc) and Flat Earth Developments Ltd to keep the technology alive . A spokesman for LT & FED was quoted as saying "there's now't wrong with solid British workmanship" but unfortunately the entire development team was wiped out when their trans-Atlantic hot air balloon suffered a flame-out enroute to a "Retarded Technology" conference at The Ozark Technology and Moonshine centre in Arkansas, USA and all aboard were lost .

Cheers

Billy 8-{) :|

The use of Rosing's technology was effectively stalled
for a while until somebody invented a computer that
could drive this new and advanced monitor technology,
and the rest, as they say, is history . 		Billy T (70)
196147 2003-12-02 05:29:00 I always wondered about the Tardis and time travel. What say I materialise on a hill where a cow happens to be grazing?

Worse than the woodchipper I would think.

I guess it all depends which end of the cow you materialised, and what the cow was doing (or about to do) ... 		WalOne (4202)
196148 2003-12-02 06:05:00 someone gave this link earlier - but splet it worng, anyway, heres the correct link to a great site that will help u find out about wot u need 2 no:

http://www.howstuffworks.com 		fergie (424)
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