First Color Poetry
Title
First Color Poetry
Type
moving image
Subject
Color computer graphics | Computers and education | Video recordings
Creator
Skellings, Edmund
Date
1978-07-12
Format
mp4
Description
Edmund Skellings' home video demonstrating visual poetry on an Intelligence Systems Corporation (ISC) personal computer equipped with 8 kilobytes of memory and a Wang disk drive. Skellings programmed in BASIC, chaining the programs so the last command in each demonstration call the next demonstration. The demo is based on his patented color text system. Note: This video is in real time. Recommend using fast foward to speed up the presentation. No sound. (Runtime: 39 minutes)
Citation
Skellings, Edmund, “First Color Poetry,” John H. Evans Library Digital Collections, accessed October 3, 2024, https://digcollections.lib.fit.edu/items/show/4211.