Blasts From The Past

Besides articles on CAD and IGES, BYTE covered IBM's new Personal System/2 line, which featured up to a 386 processor, the Micro Channel bus (neither electrically nor mechanically compatible with the old IBM PC bus), and a new OS from Microsoft called Operating System/2.Several big companies like Sharp, Toshiba, and IBM had large active-matrix LCD projects under way. Analysts predicted active-matrix would be the next step in display evolution.

Tutorials on developing, producing, and using videodiscs for mass-storage and educational applications advised us that soon we may be measuring mass storage in gigabytes (and today we do, of course).

We ran articles on designing multichannel analog interfaces and how to interface with the IBM Selectric office typewriter. The idea behind these articles was to use the typewriter as your printer to generate "suitable hard copy output."