Hi-
Wow, reading through the thesis makes me think it should be called SCRATCHpad --
he had to do everything from scratch, including light-pen tracking and basic
display processing.  I must say I feel (a lot) spoiled!
David

Alan Kay wrote:

> I've put pdf files of the Sketchpad thesis and the Early History chapter at:
>
> http://www.squeakalpha.org/~sqftp/Sketchpad.pdf.zip     about 10MB
>
> and
>
> http://www.squeakalpha.org/~sqftp/Smallhistory.pdf.zip   about 3.2MB
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
> ------
>
> At 9:26 AM -0400 6/14/03, Brent Vukmer wrote:
> >  > > http://theses.mit.edu:80/Dienst/UI/2.0/Describe/0018.mit.theses/1963-10
> >>
> >>  It is not convenient to read scanned GIFs, but it is better than
> >>  nothing!
> >
> >The GIFs are very, very high-quality.  The only inconvenience is
> >having to read the thesis one page at a time via the Web interface (
> >no PDF thumbnails, bookmarks, etc ).
> >
> >Thanks for the link, Ned!  I am LOVING this.
>
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