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- From: sg928ah5@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu (James Ianni)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: History of Computing at the Smithsonian
- Date: 2 Mar 1996 21:57:36 GMT
- Organization: Drexel University
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- Nathanael J Henderson (nahender@prairie.NoDak.edu) wrote:
- : B E Verins (beverins@aol.com) wrote:
- : : Nathaniel Henderson pointed out:
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- : : >>For presentations. The idea being that 29-inch monitors are obscenely
- : : expensive, but 29-inch TVs aren't. Anybody using a TV as their standard
- : : display should do themselves a huge favor and get a monitor.>>
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- : : The multimedia that the original poster intended was of the presentation
- : : variety, I do believe. Nevertheless, Smithsonian seems to have done an
- : : injustice to historical records by omitting a computer that was, for all
- : : intents and purposes, the FIRST COMPUTER TO HAVE such things as easy to
- : : use multitasking, multimedia, attachment to TV, animation, etc. You could
- : : make the argument that the Atari 2600 could do all that - but you would be
- : : missing the point somewhat, no?
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- : Attachment to a TV? Heck, my '83(?) Apple IIc does that. :-) Matter
- : of fact, video output to TVs was fairly common on early (read: primative)
- : computers. Hmm.... My Apple IIc does animations. It does sound. It
- : outputs to TV. And it predates the Amiga if I'm not mistaken. :-) But
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- The 1980 Vic-20 outputted to TV as well as the 1981 C64, so what's your
- point?
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- : Nope. (The arrogance!) ;-) Multitasking is NOT needed for
- : multimedia. Never has been, never will be. (You will note Quicktime is
- : manages sound, video, MIDI, text overlays, and sprites simultaniously.)
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- You are really lost dude!!!
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