BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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Apple II
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IBM Personal Computer
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Xerox Alto
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Macintosh
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1983 Apple introduced Lisa, a personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) to perform routine operations.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1973, Xerox PARC developed the Alto personal computer. It had a bitmapped screen, and was the first computer to demonstrate the desktop metaphor and graphical user interface (GUI).
Detailed explanation-3: -In late 1979 a group of engineers from Apple, led by cofounder Steven P. Jobs, saw the GUI during a visit to PARC and were sufficiently impressed to integrate the ideas into two new computers, Lisa and Macintosh, then in the design stage.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Apple Macintosh introduced a graphic user interface (GUI) to the Apple line of computers. The idea had originated at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s, but Xerox was slow to commercialize it.
Detailed explanation-5: -This week marks 33 years since the debut of the Apple Macintosh, the first computer to bring graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to the masses. The sleek, intuitive system took us from command lines and code to cursors and icons.