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  1. @me_ @bitsavers @aka_pugs @fedops

    Oh, definitely a lot of unidirectional pollination from XEROX PARC to the Lisa and Mac teams 😄

    (Although it's not the cheap rip-off that some people claim. #BillAtkinson did a heck of a lot of ingenious work to make a GUI useable at 5Mhz.)

    Yes, the Mac didn't get arrow keys until the Mac Plus in 1986, in this horrid arrangement:

    ⬜⬜⬆️
    ⬅️➡️⬇️

    You were expected to click where you wanted the insertion caret to go! XD

    The Macintosh SE and II in 1987 brought the Control key, only used for DOS emulation. The option key was mapped to alt for (emulation) software that needed it.

    With Mac OS X, they started using the Control key in addition to Command, Option, and Shift for keyboard shortcuts, a very bad idea.

  2. @me_ @bitsavers @aka_pugs @fedops

    Oh, definitely a lot of unidirectional pollination from XEROX PARC to the Lisa and Mac teams 😄

    (Although it's not the cheap rip-off that some people claim. #BillAtkinson did a heck of a lot of ingenious work to make a GUI useable at 5Mhz.)

    Yes, the Mac didn't get arrow keys until the Mac Plus in 1986, in this horrid arrangement:

    ⬜⬜⬆️
    ⬅️➡️⬇️

    You were expected to click where you wanted the insertion caret to go! XD

    The Macintosh SE and II in 1987 brought the Control key, only used for DOS emulation. The option key was mapped to alt for (emulation) software that needed it.

    With Mac OS X, they started using the Control key in addition to Command, Option, and Shift for keyboard shortcuts, a very bad idea.

  3. @me_ @bitsavers @aka_pugs @fedops

    Oh, definitely a lot of unidirectional pollination from XEROX PARC to the Lisa and Mac teams 😄

    (Although it's not the cheap rip-off that some people claim. #BillAtkinson did a heck of a lot of ingenious work to make a GUI useable at 5Mhz.)

    Yes, the Mac didn't get arrow keys until the Mac Plus in 1986, in this horrid arrangement:

    ⬜⬜⬆️
    ⬅️➡️⬇️

    You were expected to click where you wanted the insertion caret to go! XD

    The Macintosh SE and II in 1987 brought the Control key, only used for DOS emulation. The option key was mapped to alt for (emulation) software that needed it.

    With Mac OS X, they started using the Control key in addition to Command, Option, and Shift for keyboard shortcuts, a very bad idea.

  4. @me_ @bitsavers @aka_pugs @fedops

    Oh, definitely a lot of unidirectional pollination from XEROX PARC to the Lisa and Mac teams 😄

    (Although it's not the cheap rip-off that some people claim. #BillAtkinson did a heck of a lot of ingenious work to make a GUI useable at 5Mhz.)

    Yes, the Mac didn't get arrow keys until the Mac Plus in 1986, in this horrid arrangement:

    ⬜⬜⬆️
    ⬅️➡️⬇️

    You were expected to click where you wanted the insertion caret to go! XD

    The Macintosh SE and II in 1987 brought the Control key, only used for DOS emulation. The option key was mapped to alt for (emulation) software that needed it.

    With Mac OS X, they started using the Control key in addition to Command, Option, and Shift for keyboard shortcuts, a very bad idea.

  5. @me_ @bitsavers @aka_pugs @fedops

    Oh, definitely a lot of unidirectional pollination from XEROX PARC to the Lisa and Mac teams 😄

    (Although it's not the cheap rip-off that some people claim. #BillAtkinson did a heck of a lot of ingenious work to make a GUI useable at 5Mhz.)

    Yes, the Mac didn't get arrow keys until the Mac Plus in 1986, in this horrid arrangement:

    ⬜⬜⬆️
    ⬅️➡️⬇️

    You were expected to click where you wanted the insertion caret to go! XD

    The Macintosh SE and II in 1987 brought the Control key, only used for DOS emulation. The option key was mapped to alt for (emulation) software that needed it.

    With Mac OS X, they started using the Control key in addition to Command, Option, and Shift for keyboard shortcuts, a very bad idea.

  6. @jlw_the_jobber @cameron_bosch

    #BillAtkinson didn't work so hard to figure out how to draw rounded rectangles for them to be abused like this.

    How gauche. :P

  7. @jlw_the_jobber @cameron_bosch

    #BillAtkinson didn't work so hard to figure out how to draw rounded rectangles for them to be abused like this.

    How gauche. :P

  8. @jlw_the_jobber @cameron_bosch

    #BillAtkinson didn't work so hard to figure out how to draw rounded rectangles for them to be abused like this.

    How gauche. :P

  9. @jlw_the_jobber @cameron_bosch

    #BillAtkinson didn't work so hard to figure out how to draw rounded rectangles for them to be abused like this.

    How gauche. :P

  10. @jlw_the_jobber @cameron_bosch

    #BillAtkinson didn't work so hard to figure out how to draw rounded rectangles for them to be abused like this.

    How gauche. :P

  11. Bill Atkinson: Polaroids showing the Evolution of the Lisa GUI via Computer History Museum [Video] [Shared]

    Bill Atkinson shows and explains his binder of Polaroid photos which he took during the development of the Lisa, documenting the evolution of its graphical user interface.

    welchwrite.com/blog/2025/08/02

    #tech #technology #history #apple #lisa #macintosh #macos #oralhistory #applecomputer #BillAtkinson #design #programming #shared

  12. Bill Atkinson: Polaroids showing the Evolution of the Lisa GUI via Computer History Museum [Video] [Shared]

    Bill Atkinson shows and explains his binder of Polaroid photos which he took during the development of the Lisa, documenting the evolution of its graphical user interface.

    welchwrite.com/blog/2025/08/02

    #tech #technology #history #apple #lisa #macintosh #macos #oralhistory #applecomputer #BillAtkinson #design #programming #shared

  13. Bill Atkinson: Polaroids showing the Evolution of the Lisa GUI via Computer History Museum [Video] [Shared]

    Bill Atkinson shows and explains his binder of Polaroid photos which he took during the development of the Lisa, documenting the evolution of its graphical user interface.

    welchwrite.com/blog/2025/08/02

    #tech #technology #history #apple #lisa #macintosh #macos #oralhistory #applecomputer #BillAtkinson #design #programming #shared

  14. Bill Atkinson: Polaroids showing the Evolution of the Lisa GUI via Computer History Museum [Video] [Shared]

    Bill Atkinson shows and explains his binder of Polaroid photos which he took during the development of the Lisa, documenting the evolution of its graphical user interface.

    welchwrite.com/blog/2025/08/02

    #tech #technology #history #apple #lisa #macintosh #macos #oralhistory #applecomputer #BillAtkinson #design #programming #shared

  15. Bill Atkinson: Polaroids showing the Evolution of the Lisa GUI via Computer History Museum [Video] [Shared]

    Bill Atkinson shows and explains his binder of Polaroid photos which he took during the development of the Lisa, documenting the evolution of its graphical user interface.

    welchwrite.com/blog/2025/08/02

    #tech #technology #history #apple #lisa #macintosh #macos #oralhistory #applecomputer #BillAtkinson #design #programming #shared

  16. @corvus

    #AtkinsonDithering looks really nice, and it's just a tweak on the classic #FloydSteinberg dithering.

    RIP #BillAtkinson, the dude did so much for us, and most people don't know who he was. :/

  17. @corvus

    #AtkinsonDithering looks really nice, and it's just a tweak on the classic #FloydSteinberg dithering.

    RIP #BillAtkinson, the dude did so much for us, and most people don't know who he was. :/

  18. @corvus

    #AtkinsonDithering looks really nice, and it's just a tweak on the classic #FloydSteinberg dithering.

    RIP #BillAtkinson, the dude did so much for us, and most people don't know who he was. :/

  19. @corvus

    #AtkinsonDithering looks really nice, and it's just a tweak on the classic #FloydSteinberg dithering.

    RIP #BillAtkinson, the dude did so much for us, and most people don't know who he was. :/

  20. @corvus

    #AtkinsonDithering looks really nice, and it's just a tweak on the classic #FloydSteinberg dithering.

    RIP #BillAtkinson, the dude did so much for us, and most people don't know who he was. :/

  21. @vl_tone

    Color cycling FTW. Lost art!!!

    Also, it's a much closer analogy to the moving beer signs that inspired #BillAtkinson to create the "marching ants" effect in #MacPaint.

  22. @vl_tone

    Color cycling FTW. Lost art!!!

    Also, it's a much closer analogy to the moving beer signs that inspired #BillAtkinson to create the "marching ants" effect in #MacPaint.

  23. @vl_tone

    Color cycling FTW. Lost art!!!

    Also, it's a much closer analogy to the moving beer signs that inspired #BillAtkinson to create the "marching ants" effect in #MacPaint.

  24. @vl_tone

    Color cycling FTW. Lost art!!!

    Also, it's a much closer analogy to the moving beer signs that inspired #BillAtkinson to create the "marching ants" effect in #MacPaint.

  25. @vl_tone

    Color cycling FTW. Lost art!!!

    Also, it's a much closer analogy to the moving beer signs that inspired #BillAtkinson to create the "marching ants" effect in #MacPaint.