A curious phenomenon called 'Etak'
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A curious phenomenon called 'Etak'
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#2I have a fantasy that someone reverse-engineers the tape data format and is able to render new maps to it. For the 2 etak systems still operational out there...
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#3What happened to the original units? Are there any left?
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#4Related:
Etak Navigator Tour and Demo [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32202425 - July 2022 (1 comment)
Who Needs GPS? The Story of Etak's 1985 Car Navigation System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13744825 - Feb 2017 (83 comments)
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#5What happened to the original units? Are there any left?
Apparently Computer History Museum has one, catalog number 102766595, "Gift of Stan Honey". Stan Honey founded Etak.
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10276659...
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#6What is the style of UI used in that device and why did it have that characteristic angular look? I’ve seen it on other devices of the same vintage.
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#7What is the style of UI used in that device and why did it have that characteristic angular look? I’ve seen it on other devices of the same vintage.
It's a vector display, similar to how an oscilloscope display works. Check out the Vectrex video game console for another great example.
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#8What is the style of UI used in that device and why did it have that characteristic angular look? I’ve seen it on other devices of the same vintage.
I love the look. They’ll be vector displays.
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#9What is the style of UI used in that device and why did it have that characteristic angular look? I’ve seen it on other devices of the same vintage.
Do you maybe mean a vector monitor? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_monitor
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#10What is the style of UI used in that device and why did it have that characteristic angular look? I’ve seen it on other devices of the same vintage.
Vector Graphics Display- you draw with lines instead of pixels.