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==Digital media== According to author Ron Feigenblatt, the WPIX ''Yule Log'' presentation inspired his similar digital medium demonstration on the then-young [[IBM Personal Computer]], starting in 1985. At that time, the PC's new [[Enhanced Graphics Adapter]] (EGA) finally allowed one to achieve limited, full-color, full-screen, pseudo-continuous, raster-graphics animation on a primitive consumer-grade personal computer, by flipping,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ta9QAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22benefit+of+using+multiple%22 ''The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC''], p. 86, (Microsoft Press, 1985)</ref> during the frame-refresh interval, between four different (synthetic or pre-processed photographic) screen images pre-loaded into the display adapter memory, using a computer application program called PCMOVIE,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20091026135732/http://www.geocities.com/cuncie/ClearType.html#1998Dec7 ''Ron Feigenblatt's remarks on Microsoft ClearType(TM)'']</ref> written at IBM Research and distributed throughout IBM.
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