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Take a look at these NASA Apollo Mission Control Console close-up view displays.
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BrianHG:
Enjoy a view of history:


SilverSolder:

Awesome...   Modern web designers would need a 30 foot video wall to show the same information that our ancestors managed with just a single CRT monitor!
AlbertL:
In this thread https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/if-you-had-a-time-machine/msg3498842/#msg3498842 I ask when and where you'd want to go if you had a time machine.  The Apollo-era MOCR would definitely be one of my first stops!

Imagine all the interface design involved in communicating between the computer systems and those consoles.  Another video (I'll try to find it) explains that the display screens are actually CCTV monitors viewing computer output from a remotely-located CRT that displayed just the numbers, with the field labels coming from a transparency that was optically overlaid on CRT screen, and the combined image was viewed by a CCTV camera and transmitted to the console.  When a controller selected a display via the thumbwheel switches, the computer would put the corresponding data elements on its CRT, and position the appropriate transparency in the optical system.
TimFox:
If I remember correctly, the high-quality CRT monitors were made by Conrac.
themadhippy:
By coincidence  i stumbled across this earlier today
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