@Fusionftw (View Post)

 You know it's bad when Fusion doesn't know what it is. 

sort of looks like the nvidia logo lol

@Fusionftw, I can answer your question. I don't have much info on WHO first came up with them, but these are an ingenious part of an older TPT computer technology, INWR/FILT addressers. If you look closely at the "thing", you can see that each horizontal line of INWR has a series of holes. These holes represent a "0", and the INWR pixels represent "1", forming a binary pattern from top to bottom: 00, 01, 10, 11, etc. This pattern is used in conjunction with properties of INWR and BRAY to convert a binary address into a position in a rom.