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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:19:59 -0500
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Carl Ellison <cme@CYBERCASH.COM>
Subject: 3-D display: LDS-1
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At 10:46 PM 3/8/97 -0500, andrew stellman wrote:
>as for early 3-d displays, i know that when my father was a chemistry grad student in the sixties (sorry, don't know the year offhand), he worked with an extremely clever 3-d system for displaying and rotating molecules that worked with the LDS-1 line-drawing graphics system.

I checked with a friend at Evans & Sutherland who remembers the LDS-1 coming out between 1969 and 1971.


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