[HN Gopher] Inventing the Lisa User Interface (1997) [pdf]
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       Inventing the Lisa User Interface (1997) [pdf]
        
       Author : ingve
       Score  : 53 points
       Date   : 2022-12-27 12:04 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (bitsavers.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (bitsavers.org)
        
       | jgalt212 wrote:
       | I think we are supposed to forget about Lisa, so that the origin
       | story of the Macintosh will seem more impressive.
        
         | mgamache wrote:
         | Steve forgot about the real Lisa for years.
        
           | DonHopkins wrote:
           | Point taken.
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           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Brennan-Jobs
        
       | gedy wrote:
       | > Xerox Corporation bought 100,000 shares and agreed not to buy
       | more than 5 percent of Apple. ... the deal helped Apple gain
       | access to Xerox's research laboratory
       | 
       | Oh interesting, I'd always understood it as Apple stealing ideas
       | from an informal visit, not a business arrangement.
        
       | AndrewSwift wrote:
       | My first programming job was manipulating data on a Lisa for a
       | neighbor, while I was in high school.
       | 
       | I loved that computer... it was so expensive and powerful! Then I
       | went home to programming games in Basic on my CBM in the
       | basement. With a tape drive.
        
       | tabtab wrote:
       | Still better than 90% of the crap web pages out there.
        
       | DonHopkins wrote:
       | Bill Atkinson's guest lecture in Brad Meyer's CMU 05-640
       | Interaction Techniques class, Spring 2019, Feb 4, 2019:
       | 
       | https://scs.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=...
       | 
       | Including polaroids of early Lisa development.
        
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