A deep dive into early computer art at Bell Labs, exploring the S-C 4020's role in pioneering visualizations.
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A deep dive into early computer art at Bell Labs, exploring the S-C 4020's role in pioneering visualizations.
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In 1959, the electronics manufacturer Stromberg-Carlson produced the S-C 4020, a device that allowed mainframe computers to present and preserve images. In the mainframe era, the output of text and image was quite literally peripheral; the S-C 4020—a strange and elaborate apparatus, with a cathode ray screen, a tape deck, a buffer unit, a film camera, and a photo-paper camera—produced most of the computer graphics of the late 1950s and early 1960s. At Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey...
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