The Light System was developed by Child, Inc. in the late 1970s in Lawrence, KS. It was one of the first raster computer graphics systems. I worked at Child Inc., on developing the hardware of this system. It was licensed to Applied Dynamics Inc., in Ann Arbor MI, and Child Inc. moved there to help put it into production. I didn’t move, but stayed in touch with the group, and later purchased a bare PC board of the production version processor, planning to build an amazing computer based on the TI 9900. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TMS9900). I installed the parts, but never completed a full system before the computing world moved in different directions.
) 12/23/17 1:21 PM |
) I still have the TMS9900 CPU chip, in the DIP64 package. 12/23/17 1:21 PM |
) I found a sheet of the Child, Inc engineering paper that we used for drawings. 12/23/17 1:21 PM |
) 12/23/17 4:00 PM |
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