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To: Leo Farnsworth

Douglas Engelbarthad had a version of a windows type program but it was not considered patentable (no software patents were issued at that time).

14 posted on 11/13/2009 6:57:44 AM PST by ThomasThomas (Sometimes I like nuts. Thats why I am here.)
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To: ThomasThomas
Douglas Engelbart had had a version of a windows type program but it was not considered patentable (no software patents were issued at that time).

Wasn't that the NLS guy with the chord keyboard?

29 posted on 11/13/2009 6:00:53 PM PST by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: ThomasThomas; Swordmaker; SunkenCiv; Ernest_at_the_Beach

Nothing brings out the classics like wood.

33 posted on 11/14/2009 3:27:32 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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Talk about ahead of his time! Here is a website with the complete audio/video presentation of Doug Engelbart from 1968!! 40 years ago, and he's demonstrating using a mouse, cut & paste, and hypertext. Wow! 40 years ago the standard means of interacting with a computer was a punch card deck and a line printer. This is amazing!
50 posted on 11/14/2009 12:25:33 PM PST by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd: ON)
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