i updated this page:
http://www.FightThePatent.com/v2/Searching.html for some new things that i am looking for, for those that want to help try to find prior art.
A copy of the page is below for the link-click challenged.
If you know people who fit these Prior Art searches, feel free to pass them on to me or dig up your own leads and pass them on. Credit will be given!
All Prior Art finds need to be before 1990 to count.
Current Searches:
Video-on-Demand documentation/proposals. FCC may have a library of such documents.
(Waiting on reply from former commissioner Patricia Diaz Dennis)
Individuals who worked at Bell Labs that were involved with digital audio/video.
Soundcap files (as well as documentation of the file list to show availability before 1990)
(Developers found, waiting on replies)
PDP11 use of digitized audio
Weather (NASA/JPL) or Satellite movies
Electronic copies of IEEE articles/papers on Video on Demand over ATM or Fiber Optics
Quicktime public releases before 1990.
(Looking to contact Steve Jobs and Frank Casanova)
Digital audio or video on Commodore 64, Apple II, Mac (Hyperstack), NeXT, Amiga, etc
PC Speaker (DOS) .exe files that had digitized audio (ie. christmas, classical songs, etc).
DUOSOUND files
GIF89a files (not animation or cartoony, but using digitized images in a loop to make a video-like presentation)
Video Guided missiles and digital
Associated Press system for transferring videos (Harris/Radiation ?)
BBS SYSOPS with CDROM archives prior to 1990
Computer magazines that talk about audio or video, convergence of computers and entertainment, etc
Sparkle "movie" files
IBM Storyboard Plus player that would have had "video like" files to be used by this player
LinkWay from IBM. Similar to HyperCard (card oriented, has buttons, pictures and fields, not nearly as powerful as HyperCard).
HyperPad from (I think) Brightbill-Roberts. It's another HyperCard-like authoring system.
AVC from IBM. Features (anti-aliased fonts, digitized video and audio (requires special hardware), complete control over event synchronization).
Spinnaker Software is supposedly working on a "real" HyperCard clone that can read and write actual HyperCard stacks.
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