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How the Future Looked in 1964: The Picturephone

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By Damon Darlin

June 26, 2014

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Peter Warwick

Middletown, NJ

June 28, 2014

I was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories in 1964 and was asked to put data on the Picturephone screen. I designed a data set which had a 1200 bps link to an IBM mainframe and produced a Picturephone TV signal with 484 alphabetic and numeric characters on the screen. This was the forerunner of todays IPAD. The problem was that the mainframe could only produce only a fixed screen of static information like the AT&T stock price and the Picturephones cost $10,000 each to make. Nevertheless, when we went to trial at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh, 2/3

of the calls went to the data set. There was a market there if

AT&T had persisted. We reduced the cost of the data set from $35,000 to $5000 over the next 5 years but not the cost of the Picturephones and the service never took off.

Peter Warwick