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Re: The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]

#21

I initially thought this was going to be about the awesome 90s game [0]. Was a bit puzzled by the date in brackets but I was wrong in my assumption. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTbSMKGQ_rU

I remember one of the sequels [0], it seemed to often devolve into blowing up vast amounts of airships and nitroglycerine, haha.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY_cKZo51b8

Re: The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]

#24

I initially thought this was going to be about the awesome 90s game [0]. Was a bit puzzled by the date in brackets but I was wrong in my assumption. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTbSMKGQ_rU

play it in your browser here:

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-incredible-machine-1m...

Re: The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]

#27
"The Mother of All Demos" by Douglas Engelbart and his team at SRI happened the same year. It was done live.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nm47PFALc8

It included:

- A pointing device (the first mouse)

- A GUI

- Hypertext

- Word processing

- Collaborative real-time editing of a document

- Video conferencing

- File sharing

Re: The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]

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post #7
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not a documentary about the human body. It's about computers, Bell Labs.

Well, I stand corrected, thanks. Apparently there are too many things called 'The Incredible Machine'. I just clicked on the video for a second and the first image it showed still seemed to fit the 'human body' topic, because at a glance it looked like some kind of ultrasonic scanner.

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Re: The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]

#29

This film is great because it not only illustrates the wonderful abilities of early computers but also emphasizes the humans who build them. Something I don’t see as a focal point nowadays

I seem to recall software having credits in the eighties and nineties

Re: The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]

#30

This film is great because it not only illustrates the wonderful abilities of early computers but also emphasizes the humans who build them. Something I don’t see as a focal point nowadays

I seem to recall software having credits in the eighties and nineties

This having stopped is partly a side-effect of the “eternal beta” state of software.
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