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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
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.225601.11392@cs.su.oz.au>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 21:24:24 GMT
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- Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
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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.)
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- 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.
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- Forgive the odd selection of newsgroups, but I have my reasons
- for this selection.
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- Jim Davis -- davis@cs.cornell.edu -- 607-255-1134
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