[HN Gopher] The Eidophor Television System
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       The Eidophor Television System
        
       Author : _Microft
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2021-05-31 19:47 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.earlytelevision.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.earlytelevision.org)
        
       | yodon wrote:
       | I believe an Eidophor projection system was used in the late
       | 1970's to make possible the large screen display shown in Put
       | That There [0] which was an influential early natural language
       | interface (if you do check out the video, try to keep in mind
       | just how long ago the 1970's were, how limited the compute power
       | was, and that the interactions in the video are real speech
       | interactions, not a canned demo - Siri was still more than 30
       | years in the future and the 140x192 pixel color display on the
       | Apple II was a revolutionary innovation for the time. Put That
       | There was truly the stuff of Science Fiction made real).
       | 
       | [0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sC5Zg0fU2e8
        
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