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Steve Heller on test patterns: Is he secretly a Wikipedian?

July 27th, 2009 link to (permalink)

On Design Observer today, Steve Heller uncovers the arcana of television test patterns, and if this item doesn't belong on Wikipedia, I don't know what does. Here are a few lines: The origin of the pattern is a story of form following function.

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