Computer history : The Blit terminal GUI

[KnightWRX]

Interesting video showing and old school GUI from 1982, pre-dating the X Window System.

http://www.ispyce.com/2011/04/video-explains-multitasking-and-user.html

 

[kdarling]

Thanks for the story pointer!

Going back much further, the Xerox Alto had all that in 1973.

The Alto led to the Xerox Star in 1981, which was even better. About 25,000 were sold at over $16,000 each.

More reading here: Article on the First GUIs.

 

[JoeG4]

The craziest part is this lead me on a bit of a tangent reading about old computers and analog computers.

http://analogmuseum.dyndns.org/english/examples/lfsim/

Gotta love seeing math turned into circuits. Whee!

 

[roadbloc]

Thanks for the link. That video provided some useful info and some good laughs.