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[REQUEST] seeking documentation on old Imlac system or horizontal scrolling

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From: Jim Davis
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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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
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