

Apple's OS X introduced a new level of interface experience with its slick high-resolution graphics.





Microsoft released the first version of Windows. Many elements of the graphical user interface were similar to Apple's Macintosh, released a year earlier. This led to a long legal battle between th...
Apple released the Macintosh after the failed Lisa at a much lower price tag of $2,500.
With the Macintosh, Apple released the first WYSIWYG word processor, called MacWrite. That stands for What You See Is What You Get, meaning, the way the page looks on the screen is how it will look...
The Apple Lisa was the first commercially released computer to use a graphical user interface. It featured a word processor, calculator, clock, file manager, and a few other programs. It was slow a...
Before computers used a graphical user interface, word processing programs required you to type keyboard commands to format text and you couldn't see what it was going to look like until you printe...
Until Windows in 1985, Microsoft made computers run without a graphical user interface. In DOS, you had to type commands at a prompt to open programs and files.
The Xerox Alto has the first graphical user interface on a desktop computer. The screen had a unique vertical layout similar to a sheet of paper. You could click on files to open them in an applica...
A punched tape roll was fed through a teletype machine to give instructions to the mainframe computer.
The teletype machine was used to type programs on punched tape that fed into the mainframe computer.
The first computers were controlled by inserting cards punched with holes. Output was also given on cards with holes punched in them that would then have to be interpreted.
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