Showing posts with label Computer Hardware. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Computer Hardware. Show all posts
01/11/2009
22/10/2009
Chromatics Incorporated - CG Series Computer (1979)
"Chromatics color computers pack the kind of features you would expect in a $50,000 system. Besides its amazing 512 × 512 dot resolution, it has optional hardware for color shading, and superfast hardware generation (normally vectors driven by software). ZOOM and PAN are provided, and the display memory can contain up to 131,092 bytes of dynamic RAM. Four independent windows are allowed" View the source HERE.
15/10/2009
Ivan Sutherland - Sketchpad, A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System (1963)
Sketchpad (aka Robot Draftsman) was a revolutionary computer program written by Ivan Sutherland in 1963 in the course of his PhD thesis, for which he received the Turing Award in 1988. It helped change the way people interact with computers. Sketchpad is considered to be the ancestor of modern computer-aided drafting (CAD) programs as well as a major breakthrough in the development of computer graphics in general. For example, the Graphic User Interface was derived from the Sketchpad as well as modern object oriented programming. Ivan Sutherland demonstrated with it that computer graphics could be used for both artistic and technical purposes in addition to showing a novel method of human-computer interaction. From the Wikipedia entry, read more HERE.
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