John H. Evans Library Digital Collections

First Color Poem

Title

First Color Poem

Type

text

Subject

Color computer graphics | Poetry

Creator

Skellings, Edmund

Date

1978-07

Format

pdf

Item

https://chell.lib.fit.edu/plugins/Dropbox/files/files/Skellings/Ephemera/EPH-7807-01.pdf

Description

This is a Polaroid picture of the first color poem Edmund Skellings produced on a computer. His Intelligence System Computer (ISC) was manufactured by Compucolor Corporation and boasted a color keyboard consisting of the "Industrial 8" colors which enabled the user to change the color of text on the screen.

Citation

Skellings, Edmund, “First Color Poem,” John H. Evans Library Digital Collections, accessed November 21, 2024, https://link.lib.fit.edu/items/show/1911.