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From: msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: hal displays
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Date: Wed, 16-May-84 21:23:26 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 16 21:23:26 1984
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>  Many of the displays used in HAL's makeup were from a company in
>  New York called Information Displays.  They were the forrunners of
>  the interactive display systems and many other neat things.  They
>  were just 10 years ahead of the industry as there were very few
>  CPUs that knew what to do with the fancy display.
>  T. C. Wheeler
What exactly did Information Displays do?  Did they design the images
that appeared on the displays?  Every "computer display" in 2001 was
produced by traditional animation techniques and was matted into the
scene.  Computers weren't used.
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