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cathode-ray tube

[kath-ohd-rey] / ˈkæθ oʊdˌreɪ /
NOUN
picture tube
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cathode ray tube
NOUN
tv or computer vacuum tube
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“Are we doing retro-futurism? Are we doing the the cathode ray tube screens? Are we doing all of that stuff that in 1979 felt super futuristic, and to us now, feels like 1979?” he says.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2025

The ’90s may have been a simpler time technologically, a fact underscored by the cathode ray tube television sets and first-generation Apple Macintosh computers that populate the photos.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2022

“It’ll come sooner,” he said, standing between the computers controlling the sluice gates and an old cathode ray tube TV set.

From Washington Post • Oct. 30, 2021

Thomson’s cathode ray tube showed that atoms contain small, negatively charged particles called electrons.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

This display uses a five inch, high resolution cathode ray tube.

From Preliminary Specifications: Programmed Data Processor Model Three (PDP-3) October, 1960 by Digital Equipment Corporation




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