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    IMLAC Corporation was an American electronics company in Needham, Massachusetts, that manufactured graphical display systems, mainly the PDS-1 and PDS-4...
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  • IMLAC was an American graphical display systems manufacturer. Imlac may also refer to: A fictional philosopher in Samuel Johnson's novella, The History...
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    school students Steve Colley, Greg Thompson, and Howard Palmer for the Imlac PDS-1 minicomputer during a school work/study program at the NASA Ames Research...
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    escapes with his sister Nekayah, her attendant Pekuah and his poet-friend Imlac by digging under the wall of the valley. They are to see the world and search...
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    30-40 times per second to show a stable image. These displays, such as the Imlac PDS-1, require some local refresh memory to hold the vector endpoint data...
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    in September 1972, created by Ralph H. Baer. 1974: Both Maze War (on the Imlac PDS-1 at the NASA Ames Research Center in California) and Spasim (on PLATO)...
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    modifiable stored lists of drawing instructions, include the IBM 2250, Imlac PDS-1, and DEC GT40. There was a video game console that used vector graphics...
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  • high school summer interns using Imlac PDS-1 computers. The authors added two-player capability by connecting two IMLAC computers with serial cables. Since...
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  • Levels for Doom II id Software DOS, PS1 1995-12-26 Maze War Steve Colley Imlac PDS-1, MAC, NeXT Computer, Palm OS, Xerox Star, X11 1974 Maximum Action...
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    however, lead to satisfaction; and, with the help of a philosopher named Imlac, Rasselas escapes and explores the world to witness how all aspects of society...
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  • data flow designer and logic (both hardware and software) analyzer. An Imlac PDS-1 with lightpen interrupt was the main design workstation in 1973, communicating...
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    [developer Steve Colley] can't remember exactly when the network was put on the Imlacs. Garmon, Jay, Geek Trivia: First shots fired, TechRepublic, May 24, 2005...
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    microcomputer 1984 Yes No IBM PC/AT microcomputer 1984 Yes No IMLAC Corporation PDS-1 "sImlac" emulator emulation of minicomputer 1970s (minicomputer); 2017...
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  • Groupe Bull HTC — Taiwan 1997 2017 Sold computer division to Alphabet Inc. IMLAC — United States 1968 1979 Acquired by Hazeltine Corporation IMS Associates...
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  • students at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California for the Imlac PDS-1 terminal. The game is seen as the progenitor of the first-person shooter...
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  • Manchester Manchester ANB 792.7 Persico ANB 797.9 Woodbury Woodbury ANB 802.0 Imlac ANB 806.7 Gay Gay ANB 812.4 Alvaton ANB 817.0 Haralson Haralson ANB 822...
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  • assistant (originally Ian Dimmock (Michael Aldridge), later succeeded by Imlac Defraits (Denholm Elliott), owing to Aldridge becoming ill). (The characters...
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    overlapping windowing system was implemented, and was capable of displaying on an Imlac PDS-1. The Xerox Alto greatly improved upon this system by adding the capability...
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    and research laboratories. The initial game could only be played on an Imlac, as it was specifically designed for this type of computer. The first virtual...
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  • texture mapping or in-game objects and props. 1973 Maze, Steve Colley, Imlac PDS-1 1977 Mazewar, Jim Guyton, Alto 1978 Maze Game, Muse, Apple II Escape...
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  • pdf Dersch, Josh (10 May 2013). "An introduction to the Imlac PDS-1". Retrieved 1 September 2024. Foley, James D.; Van Dam, Andries (1982)...
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    device-independence. It could run on various terminals from dumb typewriters up to the Imlac PDS-1 graphical minicomputer. On the PDS-1, it supported multi-window WYSIWYG...
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  • performing at least some of these operations included the IDI, Adage, and Imlac PDS-1. A key innovation in the VG series terminals was the use of direct...
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  • Burke County     Ila 1 Madison County 30647   Ilco 1 Brooks County     Imlac 1 Meriwether County 30293   Imperial 1 Putnam County 31024   Inaha 1 Turner...
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    2017, with his team of French and Vietnamese developers, he launches the IMLAC project (″Intelligent Matricial Language About Concepts″), the construction...
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