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1. Animat+V4[view] [source] 2024-12-13 03:45:17
>>sohkam+(OP)
That's an early version of the system. I've seen pictures of a later version, which was an IBM 3270 display with a phone handset, but no keyboard. The idea was that the executive would pick up the phone and be connected to someone in a call center who would then do spreadsheet-type operations for them. Don't know if that was deployed much.
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2. ghaff+5N[view] [source] 2024-12-13 14:06:19
>>Animat+V4
A lot of time and money was wasted over the years on communications concepts. It wasn't until the mainstream collaborative editing tools and PC-based video conferencing (as accelerated by COVID) that, for now at least, everything sort of came together.
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