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Company: Tektronix, Inc. |
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Tektronix 4051: New Low-Cost BASIC Graphic Computing System
Tektronix, Inc.
1976
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Founded in 1947, Tektronix quickly became known as a supplier of very high quality electronic test equipment. Their experience with storage oscilloscopes led them to develop a very high quality graphics storage display system.
Most graphics displays have to be refreshed constantly and this is a large drain on the resources of the computer – storage scopes actually stored the information and did not need to be refreshed – a large advantage when computers were at the end of slow data transmission lines.
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