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For those interested archive.org has a much higher quality version of the recording [1] as well as a recording of the 1969 followup demo that explains in greater detail how the text editor works [2].

I really wish we could try NLS/Augment on an emulator but sadly it seems that it has been doomed by the god of copyright to forever rot in the archives of the Computer Museum.

[1] https://archive.org/details/XD300-23_68HighlightsAResearchCn... [2] https://archive.org/details/XD301_69ASISconfPres_Reel1



Here's an NLS/Augment screencast and demo from 2006: http://codinginparadise.org/ebooks/html/blog/hyperscope_scre... . I'm not sure what happened to the Hyperscope project to reimplement NLS since 2006 http://hyperscope.org/ http://codinginparadise.org/weblog/2006/12/ann-hyperscope-11... .


The Hyperscope project died, apparently. I had to use the wayback machine to retrieve the source code but it builds on a couple of obsolete technologies (client side xslt and a javascript framework that's evolved well beyond the point of backwards compatibility).


You can run a NLS/Augment in the emulator made available by the Computer History Museum, I think. I did. It was fun.




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