1 Jun
1998
1 Jun
'98
10:41 a.m.
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Larry Groebe wrote:
Not terribly. IIRC, there was a discernable lag between keystroke and
the appearance of the character on the monitor screen!
- don
Is there
someone to contact by phone to see if there will be videotapes
available?
thanks
Kai
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Yowza [mailto:yowza@yowza.com]
Sent: Monday, June 01, 1998 3:17 PM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Final Xerox Star demo
>Xerox PARC is giving one final demonstration of the original Xerox Star
>workstation built in 1981. This may be the last time it gets
>demoed, as the hardware has begun failing due to its age. Don't miss
>this opportunity to witness one of the most important steps ever taken in
>the history of computing and user interface design.
Better yet, has anyone given thought to the viability of building a Star
emulator? How fast could those things have been? --Larry
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