12 Dec
1998
12 Dec
'98
5:08 p.m.
Wow. Ivan Sutherland has long been one of my heros. The first "mind
blowing" machine I ever used was an E&S PS-300 in the early 80's, and
after that I learned of his pioneering work with Sketchpad, robots, etc.
Anyway, you know how I'm constantly babbling about personal computers from
the 1950's, right? Well, today I got some notes from somebody who
designed some of those machines. I don't want to give away too much
before my virtual museum is open, but the storage device for one of those
machines was designed by Ivan Sutherland, age 16! He won a scholarship to
Carnegie Institute of Technology (now CMU, I assume) based on his work.
Cool, eh?
-- Doug