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Ivan Sutherland : Sketchpad Demo (1/2)

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Uploaded by on Nov 17, 2007

This video is a TV show made about the software Ivan Sutherland developed in his 1963 thesis at MIT's Lincoln Labs, "Sketchpad, A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System", described as one of the most influential computer programs ever written. This work was seminal in Human-Computer Interaction, Graphics and Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), Computer Aided Design (CAD), and contraint/object-oriented programming. While watching this video, remember that the TX-2 computer (built circa 1958) on which the software ran was built from discrete transistors (not integrated circuits -it was room-sized) and contained just 64K of 36-bit words (~272k bytes).

(1/2) http://youtube.com/watch?v=USyoT_Ha_bA
(2/2) http://youtube.com/watch?v=BKM3CmRqK2o

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  • ooooomg.... 1962/1963 !!!

    I just can't believe it! Way cooler than going to the moon!

  • The Beginings of GUI, and of paint program

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  • and im watching this on my laptop... wow

  • It's not comparable to Paint because this one is vectorial, not raster, also it can solve constrains.

  • First Paint FTW

  • We invented this and went to the moon in the 1960s!!

    WTF happened in the 70s?

  • Thats fricken amazing. I'm showing my engineering teacher!!!!

  • Dr No's geek machine

  • @elbethere And computer graphics as a whole more or less. :)

  • dood is creepy !

  • I made my wife watching this for 8 seconds, what do I win ?

  • 02:39 LOL "In The Old Days"

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