14 Mar
2017
14 Mar
'17
3:30 p.m.
I know the Knight TV system at the AI Lab was a very early bit-mapped
display, but I don't know where the idea first appeared. (There were of
course influential earlier display systems, such as the one on SAGE,
althoug
those were of course all stroke-based systems, given the limited memory of
the period.)
Anyone know about the Volscan "GUI" that allowed a person to point a
light
gun at a display, points representing planes, in order to automate landing
them? I made a page about the Volscan in 2006, may need updates. "Volscan
Light Gun for assigning Antracs (Auto-matic tracking-while-scanning)." but
here it is.
http://vintagecomputer.net/volscan.cfm
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