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Description: The TX-2, integrated a number of man-machine interfaces that were just waiting for the right person to show up to use them in order to make a computer that was "on-line". With a simple cathode ray tube and light pen on the TX-2's console and thought one should be able to draw on the computer, the Sketchpad, and with it, interactive computer... ( +expand to view full text )

Description: The TX-2, integrated a number of man-machine interfaces that were just waiting for the right person to show up to use them in order to make a computer that was "on-line". With a simple cathode ray tube and light pen on the TX-2's console and thought one should be able to draw on the computer, the Sketchpad, and with it, interactive computer graphics were born. In the Lincoln Labs on their TX-2 computer Ivan Sutherland's PhD work made him to be the "grandfather" of interactive computer graphics and graphical user interfaces.