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A new video captures a 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal

submitted by sohkam+(OP) on 2024-12-13 02:30:01 | 332 points 90 comments
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11. airstr+x6[view] [source] 2024-12-13 04:16:00
>>sohkam+(OP)
Huge "Control" vibes from this article. If you like the aesthetics, action gaming, and the paranormal...yet for some reason have not played this game yet, definitely give it a try.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_(video_game)

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12. ChrisA+z7[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-12-13 04:33:29
>>airstr+x6
More like CONTROL from Get Smart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Smart
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18. boulos+De[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-12-13 06:31:28
>>Animat+1c
The Cronkite one?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BsCkaAuikGY

23. bitwiz+sl[view] [source] 2024-12-13 08:09:21
>>sohkam+(OP)
I find it interesting how Dunlop was trying to solve the same kinds of problems Engelbart was, with the added constraint of preserving the shifgrethor of the top IBM executives. The fact that late-20th-century businessmen viewed such things as typing to be subordinates' work has had a more profound effect on the adoption of computer technologies, their development, and their marketing that we in modern times could guess without having known.

I'm also reminded of the Ashton-Tate software package Framework, which is one of my favorites from the 1980s. It's what they used to call "integrated software", which was a package of several productivity applications: word processor, spreadsheet, maybe a communications program or database or graphing capability, bundled together and sold as a unit. Unlike, say, Microsoft Works or DeskMate, Framework featured powerful versions of these tools and the ability to create composite documents, as well as a programming language with Lisp-like semantics to automate workflows. Because of this, Ashton-Tate pitched Framework as an executive decision-making tool, which was quite a bit different from how competitor programs like Lotus 1-2-3 were marketed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQMc0yIbvDg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIx-TGUkiSg

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30. Doctor+Gs[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-12-13 09:40:32
>>Animat+1c
I work at a TV station and we use something like these [1]. Basically hundreds of video ins and outs that you can mix and match with the press of a button.

[1]: https://www.grassvalley.com/products/routing/vega-100-series...

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39. rhplus+zy[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-12-13 11:13:28
>>PaulWa+W2
We can all help in a small way. Archive.org is a non-profit and always needs financial support.

https://archive.org/donate

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40. kevind+cB[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-12-13 11:51:37
>>sgc+Fb
ah, thanks for catching the typo, it was getting late for me, I should have pulled up a link or something because I haven't worked with these discs in a decade or so..

yeah those are the ones I'm referring to -- if you're archiving something like family history or data that needs to be good for centuries (without having to re-copy and juggle), those are a better choice than just about anything else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC

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46. kevind+ZF[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-12-13 12:59:32
>>tom_wi+OE
Nothing comes to mind that you can interface with a computer, but when I wrote the phrase I was thinking of projects on the scale of Long Now [0], requiring physical etching on materials and very careful storage.

Alternatively, tell people that they can't store something and you're likely to find it robustly mirrored by many.

[0] https://longnow.org/ideas/very-long-term-backup/

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48. qwezxc+TH[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-12-13 13:21:03
>>Animat+1c
Many high energy physics/accelerator institutes have public accessable status dashboards online, if one want to see this concept in action. For example the one for CERN: https://op-webtools.web.cern.ch/vistar/
53. roboca+2R[view] [source] 2024-12-13 14:35:31
>>sohkam+(OP)
ĀN ĒXAMPLE is "An Example".

Uppercase characters are represented using a bar/macron over the top - I was a bit slow to work that out and I don't remember seeing that convention before.

Link just to video: https://youtu.be/UhpTiWyVa6k

Edit: pulvinar said "It's clearly a vector display". You can see a graph using vector lines at 24:13, zooming at 20:50, and there's graphic lines mixed with text at 28:36.

59. IAmKoz+f31[view] [source] 2024-12-13 15:42:03
>>sohkam+(OP)
It's comforting to know the demo gods have been cursing us since the 60s.

https://youtu.be/UhpTiWyVa6k?si=lDjot4Ie6EiQ_IOW&t=573

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61. tom_wi+P41[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-12-13 15:48:18
>>kevind+ZF
Well that was a fascinating diversion. This is bonkers!

https://norsam.com/products/buddhist-nano-film/

64. wrs+Qe1[view] [source] 2024-12-13 17:00:06
>>sohkam+(OP)
Reminds me a bit of Chile’s Project CyberSyn room. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn

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71. qingch+ip1[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-12-13 18:10:09
>>adamc+sQ
Honeywell Kitchen Computer

>>42296485

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82. nradov+WX1[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-12-13 22:47:21
>>dublin+mb1
Physician time is valuable. There is essentially a fixed supply and other bottlenecks in the healthcare system make adding more doctors a very slow process. That's why forward-thinking health systems employ medical scribes to offload data entry.

https://www.scribeamerica.com/what-is-a-medical-scribe/

The TDS Health Care System had some unique advantages but unfortunately it was tied to obsolete technology and ultimately a dead end. Web UIs aren't necessarily a problem. Some of the most popular EHRs such as Epic use native thick client applications. The fundamental issue is that healthcare is inherently more complex than almost any other business domain, with every medical specialty needing a different workflow plus beyond the clinical stuff there are extensive documentation requirements imposed by payers and government regulators. Sometimes clinicians and administrators insist on certain functionality even when it makes no sense due to ego or ignorance. EHRs can be improved but I know from painful experience how expensive and time consuming it is to get everything right.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/89482.89511

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