Lisa GUI Prototypes

A Pictorial History of the "Apple Desktop Interface" 1979 - 2000
	July 1979 Prototype ( Developed on an Apple ][ ) Area for application status messages Cursor controlled with cursor keys to layout lines, text, boxes and data fields. Prompt and Message ares. Arrows indicate possible cursor movements. Softkey Area shows the current set of ten choices.
	February 1980 Prototype Iconic prototype panel for selecting drawing tools. Special FlipBooks for browsing choices for ruler, font, pattern and line styles. Cursor controlled with the mouse or cursor keys. Menu area with choices selectable via the Mouse or the Softkeys.
	March 1980 Prototype Iconic panel on top of the window. Cursor now controlled with the mouse. Used here in a dialog box. Scrollbar with an elevator to show the current vertical position. Horizontal arrows slip pages left or right.
	August 1980 Prototype Pull down menu bar attached to the window with the window grow icon. Windows that collpase to their folder tabs for viewing multiple documents. The Scrap for cutting and pasting.
	October 1980 Prototype Pull down menu moved to the top of the screen. Horizontal and vertical scrollbars are attached to the window frame. Multiple overlappying window with clipping.
	December 1980 Prototype Browser-like display with individually resizable panes. (Looks a lot like the NeXT-style "Browser View" coming in Mac OS X, doesn't it?)
	July 1981 Prototype (Notice the dialog slides out from under the menubar. Remind of you the new feature in Mac OS X?)
	Lisa Office System 1.0 (May 1983)
	Lisa 7/7 Office System 3.1 (1984, Final Release) (Notice the Desk menu holding both running apps and Desktop items with open items indicated by a checkmark. Lisa Office System was a cooperative multitasking environment with protected memory.)

	January 1984 Macintosh System 1.0.

	1987 Macintosh System 4.2 (Finder version 6)

	1995 Macintosh System 7.5.3
	Summer 2000: Mac OS X (January 2000 MacWorld Keynote)

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