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Ivan Englebart's Demo

The only vedio projectors you could get back in those days were the size of volks wagon busses. So liklider just snatched him out of the pentagon to be his successor caus likider had this ideas, nobody should be inside the belt wave for more than two years because you go anybody reason will go crazy. He put up about 900 thousand dollars of to day's money to pay for that demo, just the demo. Told inglebart, he said, look, don't leave out anything. Don't stint on a thing. Just make sure it working an hour and a half solid. And they did everything.

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