/r/mechanicalpencils
It's a great place and I wish them well but I'm definitely not interested in being on reddit anymore.
I set up a new magazine here: https://kbin.social/m/mechanicalpencils
jsheradin
joined 2 years ago
It looks totally normal in person. The display is interlaced meaning it alternates between drawing every even or odd line each vertical refresh. It's a neat approach since you effectively double the vertical resolution with no increase in bandwidth. A camera is quick enough that it only picks up the most recently drawn lines resulting in some weird photos. Your brain does a good enough job filling in the blanks that you see both the even and odd lines combined resulting in a full image.
Although often the opposite of ergo, I did finally start documenting some of my keyboard projects in a wiki:
https://github.com/jsheradin/kb_adventures/wiki/20220930-Nixdorf-8850
Always love seeing some vintage stuff covered on your site!