Thomas on Nostr: An ad for Smalltalk/V from the 1986 Byte magazine. Marketing of "AI" hasn't changed ...
An ad for Smalltalk/V from the 1986 Byte magazine.
Marketing of "AI" hasn't changed much in the last 40 years.
"Watching someone use an AI workstation is a vision of what the computer was meant to be. Fingers dance across the keys as windows dilate, shift, overlap, and disappear on the bit-mapped display. ... The interface vanishes, man and machine are one. Smalltalk/V brings that experience to your IBM-PC."
#smalltalk #ai
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