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Quote from: Oldsmobile_Mike;739760
In December 1968, however, he set the computing world on fire with a remarkable demonstration before more than a thousand of the world’s leading computer scientists at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco.


Here's that demo..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY

The guy was so far ahead of his time, it's unreal...

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