rwmjon Hacker News • Recommends
On “The Tron Project: How Japan Almost Ruled IT”
A video about the intelligent house: link to this video Edit: Sorry, it seems this was already posted. Still, the video is more informative than this article.
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TRON Smart House
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History and cultureHardwareHistory of computingEmbedded systems
A demonstration of the first TRON Smart House built in 1989, showcasing early concepts of ubiquitous and ambient computing.
TRON Smart House: The 1st TRON Smart House in 1989Why it's here
1 person recommends thisWhat people say. Shared as a fascinating historical demonstration of early smart home technology and the TRON project.
kkfxon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Unity Systems Home Manager Support”
IBM have invented touchscreens with a dedicated pen (I ignore the name) around late '60s, decades ago we have seen link to this video the point? Well, it's simple: 99% of today high tech came from PUBLIC or at least publicly founded research from after WWII to first '80s ALL THE REST is just popularisation, ingenerisation and added crap to ensure some private party profits carefully designed not to give any power to users. It's about time we came back to a public research for public progress...
haunteron Hacker News • Mentions
On “Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened”
TRON wasn’t just an OS but a whole integrated system, it was meant to be used with different parts working together. There was a whole TRON house tech demo built in Tokyo back in 1989 link to this video If you want to try here is the BTRON 4.5 media, should work in modern VMs link link link