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Vintage Computers Any vintage computer systems, calculators, video games etc., but with an emphasis on 1980s and earlier equipment. |
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16th Jun 2021, 9:10 pm | #21 |
Octode
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Re: Control-C, etc
Perhaps the Sphere-1 was the first which is what its wiki article asserts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_1 using two keys wired in series to provide a hard reset...
ASIDE: This machine is the one famously used by Scott Adams before he used the TRS-80 to write Adventureland. This is not as the story goes the earliest adventure game for home micros but, the port of the classic ADVENT for the HeathKit H8 was which was in August 1978, a few months earlier - https://bluerenga.blog/tag/adventureland/?order=ASC |
23rd Jun 2021, 4:50 am | #22 | |
Triode
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Re: Control-C, etc
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However, just found :- Command A - select all Z - undo X - cut C - copy V - paste Were in MacWrite in 1984. Maybe came from Xerox? https://vintageapple.org/macbooks/pd...Paint_1984.pdf |
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"his presentation was described by one mesmerised attendee as "dealing lightning with both hands"." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY https://www.theregister.com/2018/12/...ts_demo_at_50/ X erox PARC was a research campus, they had a huge budget and appeared to just play themselves. It was after the fashion of Bell Labs. |
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23rd Jun 2021, 5:56 am | #24 |
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Re: Control-C, etc
Several companies had advanced research labs, somewhat disconnected from their day-to-day business, with the remit to wander. Bell Labs and the Skunk Works were used as models.
The idea was to be able to create ideas for new product lines which could not be simply derived from their existing ones. I saw a fatal decision at HP/Agilent when 'Process' became the management key word. They set up a process for deciding on the development of new products. You now had to have a written process document for every activity. You could only start a new development if you had collected marketing information showing that a number of major customers, when surveyed, had been asking for similar things. In one move this limited all future products to what the customers could imagine, AND ensured that what you did would be too late. Historically, all the products which made the firm great, and which made good profit, had had a surprise factor. David
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