Mall directory computers

[couryhouse]

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 classiccmp.org> 
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 classiccmp.org> 
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