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Aucbvax.6381 fa.works utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!works Fri Mar 5 09:43:21 1982 Innovation... >From BILLW@SRI-KL Thu Mar 4 11:09:14 1982 The point is that to most of the world, putting a PDP-8 in their office is more innovation than they think they are ready for...

You and I and the rest of the NET may need a Cray 3 with a 6 foot diagnal color picture and a rat (a big mouse..) before we are impressed, but much of the world is terrified if characters that they haven't typed appear on a display. Improving the human engineering with mice and bit-maps and stuff may make it easier for some people, but is scares other people even more... So.. .

Let's ge tthe current technology out into the world. Then we can worry about inovative technology...

Bill W

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