Although the graphical user interface (GUI) owes its existence to the contribution of many great minds in the history of technology, Apple was first to market with a personal computer that ...

1983: Apple releases the Lisa, the first commercial computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) — the advance that would finally make computers usable by people with no special training. It ...

Alan Kay recently gave his 1970s Xerox Alto to Y Combinator, and I'm helping with the restoration of this legendary system.. The Alto was the first computer designed around a graphical user ...

Apple Lisa is famous for being the first computer with a graphical user interface (GUI), an approach to personal computer interfaces that Steve Jobs embraced after visiting Xerox's Palo Alto ...

On its 40th anniversary, we look back at the machine that brought the GUI to personal computers. Jeremy Reimer – Jan 19, 2023 7:30 am | 295 Steve Jobs posing with the Lisa in 1983.

A commercial for Xerox’s Alto computer released in 1972 introduced the world to the first desktop computer with a graphical user interface. Named after Xerox PARC’s home city of Palo Alto ...

The impact of the Lisa’s GUI was so profound that dozens of companies jumped on board with imitative and catch-up products in the mouse-driven GUI space—not the least of which was Microsoft ...

The first commercial unit was introduced in 1975 (the IBM 3800), but it wasn't until 1981 that the market received its first office-bound laser printer, the $17,000 Xerox Star 8010.

The word “mouse” was much catchier, and that’s what the device was eventually called when it debuted as part of a personal computer station, first sold by the Xerox Corporation on this day ...

R. Clayton Miller's 10/GUI concept rethinks the desktop metaphor human computer interface for the multi-touch interfaces of today with a touch surface moved from the screen to the desk.