Windows open, enjoying cool, fresh morning air and an episode of The Computer Chronicles: The Macintosh Computer on the Internet Archive. 1985 and they already had the Apple Laser Writer on the market and IBM already had a color graphical interface. There’s even a pundit segment with a guy irritatingly predicting (correctly) that Apple would struggle getting into the business world. I was surprised that a visual database, FileVision, already existed. Also, a vector drawing app, GEM Draw, was already available on IBM with a much larger, color screen. GEM was a graphical windowing for the Atari ST computers and was IBM PC compatible.
Beardy Guy Musings
Experimenting with ways to live a low impact life in a tiny house in the woods. Graphic and web design at Beardy Guy Creative . I often write about the Climate Emergency, Apple and the iPad. Living on the traditional territory of: O-ga-xpa Ma-zhoⁿ (O-ga-xpa) (Quapaw), Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, Kaskaskia, Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo)