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Re:Hunting down Ken's PDP-7: video footage found by folkhack on Sunday October 13, 2019 @12:35PM (#21241276)
Man stuff I love stuff like this - what a trip. Reminds me a lot of Xerox's mother of all demos (in the same year 1968). These animations/graphics have such a wonderful feel to them that are still compelling and interesting in 2019 =)

What an amazing video.

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Re:Hunting down Ken's PDP-7: video footage found by maartenh on Sunday October 13, 2019 @04:31PM (#21242768)
Are you referring to Doug Engelbart's demo of the Online System (NLS) [1]? He was at SRI at the moment. The things that happened at Xerox after that were inspired by NLS, and build by some of the people that worked on it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

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Re:Hunting down Ken's PDP-7: video footage found by folkhack on Sunday October 13, 2019 @07:53PM (#21244156)
That's the one! This early stuff gives me chills man - I'm so into it. Pioneers of a new era =)
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