[BC] An Entertaining Trip Back Through GUIs

[Mark Croom]

1990: I was a DOS snob on PCs when my boss bought a couple of Amstrad 386-25
machines that came with Windows 3.0 pre-installed. I played with it, didn't
"get it", and never used it again until I decided I needed to learn my way
around it perhaps two years later.

First "real" use of Windows at the station was to run our newsroom app and a
terminal program for our DRC-190 at the same time. Windows 3.1 did that
adequately so I put it into the control room on a 386SX-25 box. That was a
mess in itself--it was an IBM PS/2 with MCA slots. But we took it as a
donation so I was in the "you don't look a gift horse in the mouth" mode. I
digress tho...

I notice that this review of GUIs included BeOS but not GeOS. I used GeOS
(briefly) on a Commodore, and after America Online committed to a GeOS
interface for their early software, I ended up buying the full GeOS package
for my home computer. We ran that for a couple of years until it became
obvious that support was not building, and Windows was "winning" to the
point where we needed to make the switch permanently to be able to run the
software we wanted for our kids schooling.

Mark
MN

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Alan Peterson <alanpeterson at earthlink.net>wrote:

> 28 years of GUIs. Where were *you* when you first clicked a mouse to one of
> these babies?
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> http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/03/operating-system-interface-design-between-1981-2009/
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> Alan Peterson KJ4IVD
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