Mall directory computers - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

1 Aug 2016

I remember company using varian... v series.. minI to drive display was prototype in
az..... why varian? There were mivso in the 80s. And this was NOT early 80s

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From: Brad H <vintagecomputer at bettercomputing.net> 
Date: 8/1/16  13:17  (GMT-07:00) 
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
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Subject: Re: Mall directory computers 

??? 
It wasn't those two.. I remember Harvard Graphics. ?It had a friendlier name than
that.. Direct something? ?Darn. ?Gotta find it now.

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From: ethan at 757.org 
Date: 2016-08-01? 12:49 PM? (GMT-08:00) 
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
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Subject: Re: Mall directory computers 

...
 You know.. come to think of it.. it might have been
something like this 
software I used to play with obsessively as a kid. ?My Dad had it for 
our PC. ?I completely forgrt the name. ?It was a CGA graphics 
proto-Powerpoint kind of deal. ?You could draw pictures, graphs etc.. 
and it also had clip art. ?You could do fade ins and outs and other effects. 
?I think we had it later on.. 85 or after. ?But the colors and way it 
drew graphics was similar. ?And I think you could hotkey it to go to 
specific 'slides'. ?The mall computer just had a series of buttons 
alongside the screen from what I remember. ?Could have been rigged up to 
replicate certain keys. ? Wish I could remember the program name.. 
There was GRASP / GRASPRT? You could author all sorts of stuff in it.

There was presentation software called Harvard Graphics I think.

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Ethan O'Toole