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From: cattie!marks@hutch.UUCP (Mark Schaffer)
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Subject: Re: Model 4 and Discover
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Date: 10 Apr 90 02:55:33 GMT
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jfowler@ucsd.edu (John C. Fowler) writes:

> While browsing through the April 1990 issue of Discover magazine, I
> came across an interesting photo on p. 24.  The photo consists of
> characters from a computer screen superimposed over a picture of a
> vole (a small creature resembling a rat) in a maze.  What
> caught my eye was that the font used in the computer screen shot
> looks exactly like that of a TRS-80 Model 4 in 80-column mode,
> probably in BASIC (because there is a "Ready" at the bottom of
> the screen).  [...]

Well, since I don't have a copy of Discover, I don't exactly know what
the picture is like, but it kind of reminds me of a videotape I saw on
how to use AutoCad.  The tape had the AutoCad screen with a video of the
person's hands at the keyboard superimposed over the AutoCad screen.
This was accomplished with an Amiga computer (I don't know wich) as they
are ideally set up for just such an application.   Apparently they have
a video-input port for doing these superimposing things.

Just a thought.....
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