公开(公告)号：DE2327212A1

公开(公告)日：1974-01-03

申请号：DE2327212

申请日：1973-05-28

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： LAY FRANK MIN-TSONG ,  MCDOWELL ALLEN WILLIAM

IPC: G09G3/285 ,  G09G3/29 ,  H01J17/49 ,  G06K15/18

Abstract: A gas panel arrangement for storing, displaying, and selectively shifting information from one place therein to another includes an envelope filled with an illuminable gas, a plurality of vertical conductors disposed in parallel on one side of the envelope, a plurality of horizontal conductors disposed in parallel on the opposite side of the envelope with the regions of illuminable gas in the vicinity of the coordinate intersections of the vertical and horizontal conductors defining gas cells, and a writing arrangement which inserts binary information in a given portion of the envelope by igniting or not igniting the illuminable gas to represent binary ones and zeros. In order to accomplish shifting a sequence of signals is repetitively supplied to sets of the vertical conductors to shift binary information horizontally from one gas cell to another, and a sequence of signals is repetitively supplied to sets of the horizontal conductors to shift binary information vertically from one gas cell to another.

公开(公告)号：DE2317678A1

公开(公告)日：1973-11-15

申请号：DE2317678

申请日：1973-04-07

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： HAKE VICTOR EDWARD ,  MCDOWELL ALLEN WILLIAM ,  MERSEL DANIEL RICHARD ,  MOSHER LAWRENCE GEDNEY ,  STILWELL STANLEY OLIVER

IPC: G06F3/12 ,  G06F13/00 ,  G06F13/12 ,  H04L13/08 ,  G06F3/04

Abstract: A new logic and storage circuit is provided for a terminal device such as a display or printer used in a data processing system. The circuit includes a shift register that is interconnected with a control unit by a coaxial cable or other two conductor system for transferring serial messages to the control unit and for receiving serial messages from the control unit. The register is connected in parallel with other components of the terminal device. The logic and storage circuit is provided with means for detecting data bits on the two conductor message line and for forming data bits on the line in response to the contents of the register. Means is also provided for decoding control word messages from the control unit and for receiving data messages or transmitting data or status word messages from the terminal device to the control unit.

公开(公告)号：DE3377242D1

公开(公告)日：1988-08-04

申请号：DE3377242

申请日：1983-12-21

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： BRYAN BARRY LEE ,  DRUCKERMAN MARTIN ,  MCDOWELL ALLEN WILLIAM ,  SCHNEIDER IRA HOWARD

IPC: G06F13/00 ,  G06F3/02 ,  G06F3/153 ,  G06F13/10 ,  G06F13/14 ,  G06F15/00 ,  G06F15/02

公开(公告)号：DE2504730A1

公开(公告)日：1975-09-11

申请号：DE2504730

申请日：1975-02-05

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： LAY FRANK MIN-TSONG ,  MCDOWELL ALLEN WILLIAM

IPC: G09G3/29 ,  H01J17/49 ,  G06K15/18 ,  G09F9/32 ,  H01J61/92

Abstract: A gas panel arrangement for storing, displaying and selectively shifting information from one place therein to another includes an envelope filled with an illuminable gas, a plurality of vertical conductors disposed in parallel on one side of the envelope, a plurality of horizontal conductors disposed in parallel on the opposite side of the envelope with the regions of illuminable gas in the vicinity of the coordinate intersections of the vertical and horizontal conductors defining gas cells, a writing arrangement which inserts binary information in a given portion of the envelope by igniting or not igniting the illuminable gas cells to represent binary ones and zeros, a shifting arrangement which includes a first sequence of signals repetitively supplied to the vertical conductors to shift binary information horizontally, and a sustain mechanism which supplied a second sequence of signals repetitively to given vertical conductors thereby to increase the number of ignited gas cells and accordingly increase the light intensity to render brighter letters, numbers, characters and the like which are illuminated on the face of the display device.