16 Oct
2008
16 Oct
'08
1:54 a.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?
I do consider plotter graphics as a graphical display of some sort.
Then, after the first machine, besides SAGE, what
systems were utilizing
graphic displays in the 1950s? Did the IBM commercial derivative of SAGE
We have an LGP-30 with Calcomp 565. But I think that analog computers have
already created computer graphics on X-Y recorders long before the LGP-30
(thinking of Lissajous). And of course there have been mechanical
apparatus before analog computers.
Christian