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I am trying to identify / find an online copy of a multimedia technology demonstration video. Timeframe: late 1980s? Source: IBM. Format: VHS.

The content of this video was a computer program with a voice recording of either the original Greek epic of Ulysses or maybe James Joyce's book of the same title. The video showed details of how the program would display the text simultaneously with the reading, and had some annotations and other features.

I think the point of it was to show off the capabilities they had developed by using a real application of the book I mentioned; it may have been touting it for educational purposes. Today this kind of technology it obviously taken for granted but at the time it seemed innovative and impressive!

All these recollections are probably subject to error but that's what I remember...

I've done some searching based on what I remember and can't find any reference to it - but I bet its out there somewhere.

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Was it Ulysses, Tennyson's poem from Illuminated books and manuscripts (pub. IBM Educational Systems, 1992)?

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  • I've come back to this a few times now and II'm not certain its a match though it is similar. Some aspects of this seem like what I remember, but other details are quite different. I don't recall the guy speaking, and although the poem seems right all the background images & video edited in with it are totally unfamiliar. What I had seen was much drier. I wonder if IBM had several versions of this or re-used some elements in more than one product / demo. – UuDdLrLrSs Oct 10 '19 at 23:05

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