BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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Copiers being used to make identical copies of paper
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Graphical User Interface with a mouse interaction
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Keyboard & Monitor Connected to a computer
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A demonstration of the IBM Personal Computer
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Detailed explanation-1: -According to early reports, it was on this visit that Jobs discovered the mouse, windows, icons, and other technologies that had been developed at PARC . These wonders had been locked away at PARC by a staff that didn’t understand the revolutionary potential of what they had created.
Detailed explanation-2: -Jobs and Wozniak wanted to make computers small enough for people to have them in their homes or offices. Simply put, they wanted a computer that was user-friendly.
Detailed explanation-3: -In December 1979, Apple Computer’s co-founder Steve Jobs visited Xerox PARC, where he was shown the Smalltalk-80 object-oriented programming environment, networking, and most importantly the WYSIWYG, mouse-driven graphical user interface provided by the Alto.
Detailed explanation-4: -After the PARC visit, Jobs and many of Lisa’s engineers, including Bill Atkinson, worked to incorporate the ideas of the GUI from PARC into the Lisa. Atkinson developed the QuickDraw graphics library for the Lisa, and collaborated with Larry Tesler, who left PARC to join Apple, on developing the Lisa’s user interface.