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The Xerox Alto is a computer system developed at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) in the 1970s. It is considered one of the first workstations or personal computers, and its development pioneered many aspects of modern computing.
1 dzień temu · In 1964, the first computer mouse prototype was made with a graphical user interface (GUI), “Windows.”. They approached NASA in 1966, and with NASA funding, the team developed types of tasks and timed a group of volunteers to do those tasks with the various devices. For example, the computer would generate an object randomly on the screen ...
27 kwi 2021 · On April 27, 1981, the world’s first commercial computer mouse arrived, attached to a hugely expensive, wholly futuristic personal computer that utterly failed to sell. Image used with permission...
27 kwi 2015 · The personal computer that introduced the mouse to the world — with a similarly unwieldy name, the Xerox 8010 Star Information System, and the clunky look common to early personal...
To make computer use easy, Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) combined a graphics-based display and mouse with software that presented a rich interface of moveable windows and icons. The graphics, and Alto’s point-and-click selection method, enabled new approaches to word processing—Bravo’s WYSIWYG printing, and Gypsy’s “cut-and ...
17 maj 2011 · According to Gladwell, when Steve Jobs visited Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center in the late 1970’s, he was amazed by what he saw: a demonstration of a new three-button computer mouse. The...
1 mar 2023 · Xerox’s attempt to turn the Alto into a true commercial product, 1981’s Xerox Star, introduced a common graphical interface on the metaphor of a desktop, with graphical icons for files ...
