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In article <1991Jul16.053450.14891@odin.corp.sgi.com> nelson@sgi.com (Nelson Bolyard) writes:
>>Data Entry Screen
>
>Outrageous!  Filed in 84?  Prior Art!  I wrote tranasaction processing
>applications for Michigan Farm Bureau Services in 1977 that did this.
>Required fields were reverse video, error fields were blinking reverse video.

I did the same thing in 1980 for a data entry system sold to San Mateo
County, and used at least for a while in their courthouse.

It was based on the user interface that had already been in use in
Monterey county for years.

I considered it completely obvious at the time; nothing original about it.

I remember seeing high end *terminals* in the 70's that supported
precisely the same features (hardwired support for data entry screens,
not just the usual escape sequences).

Hell, I thought that's why terminals supported various standout modes
in the first place. If not for that, then for what??

I'd be more than happy to swear to this in an affadavit for an
amicus curie brief, not that that should be necessary, since it
should be pretty easy to dig up prior art dating to 1967 or so.
	Doug
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