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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 10:55 PM EST |
It was a paper white monitor (before Windows). When I moved
back to Iowa City in December 1982, I found a nice little
local computer store. I was looking at buying a PC (the term
was used before IBM came out with their model, too) for me
and one for an organization I volunteered for. I was buying
a lot of computer magazines. There was a lot of exciting
stuff coming out back then.
I wish I could remember what the brand name was, but that
was a long time ago. The stand was stationary, and the
screen rotated.
There were also UNIX PCs, floppy drives that used variable
density tracks depending on how far out from the spindle you
were, PCs with mainframe-style 8" 1M floppies, even some
with hard drives! Those were the days!
IN 1983, I was multitasking on a PC. Concurrent CP/M-86 was
fantastic. By 1986, I was multitasking with some graphics.
DesqView running on top of DR-DOS was wonderful. I could run
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 11:16 PM EST |
I was using them on Macintosh long before the 1999 filing date
for the allegedly infringed patent. I guess it's infra dig to
provide Apple with prior art these days, but the Radius Pivot
is much closer to what an iPhone does than the troll's patent.
Also if it was patented prior to release in 1991(2?) its patent
should have expired by now.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 11:22 PM EST |
You are all forgetting the 'just like before but done on a...' clause.
Tufty
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 11 2012 @ 03:21 AM EST |
A text terminal (remember them?) that did this was
the Facit Twist. Google is your friend here.
--bygg
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