It's not every day that a piece of tech history is uncovered, but don't go searching through your old tech hoping to find a hidden gem.

Looking at it, I think it might be an one of those old mono LCD displays? The video makes it look like it’s a bunch of small individual ones rather than a large continuous display.

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Holy shit… it’s a large dot matrix plasma display. Haven’t seen one of those in ages.

https://hackaday.io/project/179986-plasma-display-mc6205

That project has pictures that show you how they looked/worked.

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Oh those things are super cool, soviet era display technology had a great aesthetic. This YouTuber had some great videos on them

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