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From: ucbvaxworks
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1982 09:43

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>From BILLW@SRI-KL Thu Mar  4 11:09:14 1982
The point is that to most of the world, putting a PDP-8 in their
office is more innovation than they think they are ready for...

You and I and the rest of the NET may need a Cray 3 with a 6 foot
diagnal color picture and a rat (a big mouse..)  before we are
impressed, but much of the world is terrified if characters that
they haven't typed appear on a display.  Improving the human
engineering with mice and bit-maps and stuff may make it easier
for some people, but is scares other people even more...  So.. .

Let's ge tthe current technology out into the world.  Then we can
worry about inovative technology...

Bill W

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Subject: Innovation...
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1982 09:43:21 +0000
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