How were images, apps, letters, and etc able to be put on the first ever computer screen?
Today if you buy a new device it already has images, numbers, text, and etc. and if you want to add images or make anything in general, you can do it with pre existing software and with the assistance from a computer screen. I could see that maybe the people who made the first ever computer screen had help from pre existing computers but how did they go about doing this? Did they manually put 1’s and 0’s into the hard drive? Is it magic?
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The first computer screens were so-called dumb terminals. They were basically a replacement for printer/teletype output. The screen would display a character at a time from the bottom of the screen and scroll up. The characters themselves were stored in a ROM as bitmap patterns.
the 8-bit guy did a video on that recently.
The Apple 1 computer
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