Hacker News with Generative AI: Vintage Technology

DVST Graphic Terminals (vintagetek.org)
Bob Anderson’s invented the bistable Direct-View Storage Tube (DVST) in 1961 and the result was the Tek 564 storage oscilloscope.  Computer researchers began using hacked 564 scopes and CRTs to make desperately needed interactive computer displays – even though it was only a five inch display.
4100 / 4200 Series Graphic Terminals (a.k.a. Unicorn) (vintagetek.org)
As the 401X and 411X family of DVST graphic terminals was winding down, and color displays and dynamic RAM prices were dropping, Tektronix chose to enter the low cost color terminal market with raster scan terminal terminals.
This G15 is the Oldest Running Digital Computer in America [video] (youtube.com)
Bosch FGS4000 3D Demo (1984) (youtube.com)
End the line: The last Sun Sparc Workstation [video] (youtube.com)
Radioactive Tape Dispenser (1970s) (orau.org)
This is a 3M Model C-15 Decor Scotch tape dispenser. It is slightly radioactive due to the thorium-containing monazite sand that was used as ballast.
Ask HN: Help me restore the LCD displays on classic samplers so I can use them (ycombinator.com)
I have gotten hold of a few classic Akai samplers from the 90ish. Sadly, the lcd screens are either not working, or impossible to read, or faintly visible.
Apple-1 Prototype Polaroid Photographs – 1976 (rrauction.com)
Symbolics S-Render manual (1985) (archive.org)
Acorn Computer Systems catalogue circa 1983 (jgc.org)
Experiments with Calculo Analog Computer Kit (1959) [pdf] (ccapitalia.net)
Inside a vintage aerospace navigation computer of uncertain purpose (righto.com)