The 2250 and its precursors were heavily used as a part of IBM's collaboration with CBS News to provide presidential election-night coverage in the United States, IBM's participation being directed at familiarizing viewers with its technology.
As Chris Mason has implied, the distinction between text and graphics was moot; and this was sometimes an advantage. My colleagues and I used it in the 1970s as a component of an experimental pharmacological screening/data reduction system that we developed for a then major pharmaceutical company; and we were able to produce plots on it that were helpful in directing the course of ongoing mainframe computations. Flicker was not a problem when predominantly graphic output was displayed; it was a problem when large quantities of rapidly changing alphameric-text were displayed. Programming it was not difficult for anyone familiar with the not very arcane algebra of piecewise linear interpolation; and my memories of it are agreeable, if not quite fond, 40 years on. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
