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[Tim Roberts]

SAIL (Stanford AI Lab) had the first laser printer
to play with (people wrote incredibly ugly documents with tons of fonts
in them because it was the first they could spec it).

"Ransom note syndrome." Virtually everyone falls prey to this the first
few times they discover desktop publishing.

All of this was in the mid seventies or earlier.

Right. It surprises many people to learn that virtually everything we
think of as modern and interesting in computer science was first explored
in the 1960s and early 1970s. GUIs, color, 3D, structured progamming,
networking, interpreters, Unix; the list goes on and on. It was probably
the most exciting time in the history of computers.

 

[Scott David Daniels]

It surprises many people to learn that virtually everything we
think of as modern and interesting in computer science was first explored
in the 1960s and early 1970s. GUIs, color, 3D, structured progamming,
networking, interpreters, Unix; the list goes on and on. It was probably
the most exciting time in the history of computers.

Here I think you're wrong, my vote is the 1940s:
First time for tons of stuff, fate of the world hangs in the
balance, no idea if some of this is going to work, ....
Essentially all the crypto push with top secret machines decoding
German traffic, and the desperate attempt to crack the Japanese
Purple system. I expect the efforts at Bletchley Park, Princeton,
numerous unnamed locations, and even Germany and Japan were pulse-
pounding. In the sixties and seventies we were just having immense
fun making things go, at least by comparison.

--Scott David Daniels
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[Dennis Lee Bieber]

the most exciting time in the history of computers.

Pity the computers in question required complete air-conditioned
rooms <G>
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