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  1. December 9th, 2008, 05:47 PM #1
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    The Mother of all Demos

    Forty years ago this month, the concept of a user friendly Personal Computer was demonstrated, with basic GUI, mouse, and more ideas that came to be what we accept as normal computing:

    http://www.old-computers.com/history...l.asp?n=59&t=9
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  2. December 10th, 2008, 12:13 AM #2
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    You mean to tell me, they invented the Internets before they bothered to invent color?
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  3. December 10th, 2008, 03:03 AM #3
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    Yes! The intertubes were drab back then.
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  4. December 10th, 2008, 05:42 AM #4
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    Ewps, oldcomputers has a problem - error 500
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  6. December 18th, 2008, 05:39 AM #6
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    interesting movie but i don't have time to watch all movie.
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  7. December 18th, 2008, 06:05 AM #7
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    Yes, it is quite long.
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  8. December 18th, 2008, 10:19 AM #8
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    Hmm I finally got to watch a part of this. I had wanted to watch the day it was posted but for some reason the video link was down when I tried. Anyway cool find. I want a keyboard, mouse, and hotkey pad terminal like that though for my office! Then I can come one step closer to my IT cockpit. OK so not really a cockpit as much maybe just a centralized station that allows me to swivel the terminals around for ease of access.
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