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Article #86[REQUEST] seeking documentation on old Imlac system or horizontal scrolling
From: Jim Davis
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:24
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:24
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I post on behalf of a firm trying to defeat an attempt to patent software horizontal scrolling! I seek information on a late 70's system called the Imlac Composer. (Imlac, a company in Newton, made a strange minicomputer whose archicture resembled the PDP-8 plus a vector graphics display. The main product, the Composer, was an early electronic typesetting machine which produced output for phototypesetters. This was before laser printers.) Anyone with pointers to people, manuals, or working systems (hah!) >from this system should call Ellen Law (collect) at 312-408-0855. Or send email to me. Forgive the odd selection of newsgroups, but I have my reasons for this selection. Jim Davis -- davis@cs.cornell.edu -- 607-255-1134
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!mips!mips!munnari.oz.au!metro!basser.cs.su.oz.au!news From: davis@cs.cornell.EDU (Jim Davis) Newsgroups: comp.patents Subject: [REQUEST] seeking documentation on old Imlac system or horizontal scrolling Summary: [REQUEST] Can you prove that horizontal scrolling existed before 1978? Keywords: Imlac Message-ID: <1992Aug19.225601.11392@cs.su.oz.au> Date: 18 Aug 92 21:24:24 GMT Sender: news@cs.su.oz.au (News) Distribution: usa Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853 Lines: 16 Approved: patents@cs.su.oz.au X-Full-Sender-Address: @thialfi.cs.cornell.EDU:davis@cs.cornell.EDU