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Gathering recalls the unveiling of innovations that led to the personal computer

In 1968, an audience of about a thousand people at a conference in San Francisco were given a glimpse of the future of computing.

They saw one of the first public demonstrations of a computer mouse. They also saw teleconferencing over a computer screen, online collaboration, real-time text editing and the use of hypertext links.

Most amazing was that all these innovations were incorporated into one computer system that was shown off during a 90-minute demo given by one man.

By Troy Wolverton MEDIANEWS STAFF

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