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Episode 55 - Project Xanadu

Advent of Computing

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Input Vices - A Brief History

H s was one of the first systems to take advantage of graphic terminal for displaying large, continuous chunks of text. From that upper pane a user could scroll through a really impressive amount of characters and easily edit and manipulate any displayed text. Crucially, this was all done using a big window that could display lines of text in context. On s you get the usual keyboard, something with a similar quarity lay out to a modern computer keyboard.

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