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URI GM's Futuristic '80s Digital Displays â This Man Fights to Keep Them Alive
supportengineer wrote 4 hours 6 min ago:
In about 20 years from now, you you could write this exact same article
but instead of Oldsmobile Trofeo and Trinitron CRTs it will be LCDs and
any car sold today.
hcarvalhoalves wrote 10 hours 28 min ago:
These displays made your car look like a proper fighter plane. Today we
get a tablet slapped onto the dashboard :(
selimnairb wrote 10 hours 36 min ago:
I bet the UI latency was lower than current infotainment systems.
rasz wrote 11 hours 40 min ago:
In recent Etak article comments webstrand linked to this gem:
"INFORMATION DISPLAY - The Official Journal of the Society for
Information Display" JULY 1985 VOL.1 No.7 [1] Page 17 has an article on
1985 Chrysler H-body VFD cluster.
URI [1]: http://archive.informationdisplay.org/Portals/InformationDispl...
aleksiy123 wrote 12 hours 21 min ago:
I love these retro future displays and UIs.
Something super satisfying about the colors and contrast.
staticfish wrote 10 hours 50 min ago:
Often because (as in this case as well) they are not regular LCD or
calculator-like segmented displays, but rather Vacuum Florissant
Displays. VERY satisfying hue they emit.
URI [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_fluorescent_display
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