pt. X: the Window

"His name and his pioneering work have been mentioned a couple of times before during this series: Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad, "released" in 1963. Regular readers will already know what Sketchpad was; Sketchpad was a sketching program, running on a Lincoln TX-2, and it allowed its users to draw various shapes, and manipulate these shapes. You interacted with the program using a laser pen and a keyboard with keys mapped to specific actions you could perform."

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