I remember company using varian... v series.. minI to drive display was prototype in az..... why varian? There were mivso in the 80s. And this was NOT early 80s
Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Brad H <vintagecompu...@bettercomputing.net> Date: 8/1/16 13:17 (GMT-07:00) To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: Mall directory computers It wasn't those two.. I remember Harvard Graphics. It had a friendlier name than that.. Direct something? Darn. Gotta find it now. Sent from my Samsung device -------- Original message -------- From: et...@757.org Date: 2016-08-01 12:49 PM (GMT-08:00) To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: Mall directory computers >You know.. come to think of it.. it might have been something like this >software I used to play with obsessively as a kid. My Dad had it for >our PC. I completely forgrt the name. It was a CGA graphics >proto-Powerpoint kind of deal. You could draw pictures, graphs etc.. >and it also had clip art. You could do fade ins and outs and other effects. > I think we had it later on.. 85 or after. But the colors and way it >drew graphics was similar. And I think you could hotkey it to go to >specific 'slides'. The mall computer just had a series of buttons >alongside the screen from what I remember. Could have been rigged up to >replicate certain keys. Wish I could remember the program name.. There was GRASP / GRASPRT? You could author all sorts of stuff in it. There was presentation software called Harvard Graphics I think. -- Ethan O'Toole