Several people went from SRI to Xerox PARC in the early 1970s. In 1973, Xerox PARC developed the Alto personal computer. It had a bitmapped screen, and was the first computer …

Ivan Sutherland developed Sketchpad in 1963, widely held as the first graphical computer-aided design program. It used a light pen to create and manipulate objects in engineering drawings …

Jan 10, 2024 · The first computer using the Alto operating system was developed at Xerox’s PARC research Center. Alto was the first operating system to feature all the essential …

Jan 19, 2010 · 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 …

The graphical user interface (GUI) is the now very familiar user interface that allows you to interact with computers or smartphones through graphical icons using a mouse or touch …

Nov 13, 2018 · One of the Alto's key developments was its graphical user interface (GUI). It could run mouse-based programmes which allowed the user to navigate around the screen using a …

May 5, 2005 · The combination of Smalltalk and the Alto was essentially a modern personal computer with a very similar graphical user interface to the ones we use today.

Sketchpad, created in 1962 by Ivan Sutherland at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, is considered the first computer with a windowing interface. The ...

April 1973, the first operational Alto computer is completed at Xerox PARC. The Alto is the first system to pull together all of the elements of the modern Graphical User Interface. Features: 3 …

Mar 23, 2025 · Before graphical user interfaces became the norm, early computers relied entirely on text-based interaction. Users had to type commands into a command-line interface (CLI) to …