Remember Burn IN?

[+dhe]

[apersson850]

It's not a TV, it's an LCD!

[jetset]

YEP! Xmas 1978 - my brother and I left Pong (don't remember the brand/style) on overnight. The lines and the scores burned in. Our dad was puh-h-h-h-h-h-issed off. Fortunately we were already planning to move and the TV was to big to take anyway, but those last few months were *not* pleasant.

[jhd]

I did not realise that burn-in was permanent; I thought that the screen would (eventually) return to normal. 

Granted, I have only ever seen it on arcade games where the screen image does not change very much.

 

[+arcadeshopper]

very permanent.. i have a stack of tubes here from mostly pacman with burnin for life.. 

[schuwalker]

Definitely not uncommon... I swapped tubes recently with one that had Track & Field burn in.

[+InsaneMultitasker]

You sure that isn't an overlay decal? 

 

I remember having to securely destroy green and amber screen terminals now and then, due to sensitive system info that was burned-in over time. Crazy fun...

[Tursi]

On 12/30/2022 at 4:12 AM, dhe said:

Ah, VisiCalc.

 

[HOME AUTOMATION]

1 hour ago, InsaneMultitasker said:

I remember having to securely destroy green and amber screen terminals now and then, due to sensitive system info that was burned-in over time. Crazy fun...

Did you use the gravity-feed method, or have to improvise?

 

[apersson850]

I saw the main console of an IBM system 370/Model 158 once, where the more common status messages were for ever preserved on the screen.

[+OLD CS1]

42 minutes ago, apersson850 said:

I saw the main console of an IBM system 370/Model 158 once, where the more common status messages were for ever preserved on the screen.

The operator console of our System/34 network was like that.