15 Oct
2008
15 Oct
'08
7:31 p.m.
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Richard wrote:
What was the first machine to have some sort of
graphical display (most
likely oscilloscope style) driven by a computer?
SAGE is the first one I can think of; I don't recall the predecessors at
MIT having any sort of graphical display.
The Whirlwind computer at MIT was used to develop the concepts used in
SAGE. There's a picture of a display scope on the Whirlwind from 1950 on
this page:
http://www.mitre.org/about/photo_archives/whirlwind_photo.html
And another here from 1953:
http://www.mitre.org/about/photo_archives/sage_photo.html
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/