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Bill Atkinson: Polaroids Showing the Evolution of the Lisa GUI [video]

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oersted ◴[25 Jun 25 11:54 UTC] No.44376226[source]▶
I love the Computer History Museum (this is published on their channel).

The museum itself is not so special, but it's run by all these retired volunteer industry veterans that have incredible stories to tell, and they are such delightful and smart people. They were the ones at the front-lines when everything was starting.

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1. jazzyjackson ◴[25 Jun 25 15:45 UTC] No.44378615[source]▶
There was a day they were demonstrating the first commercially available harddisk from 1956 [0], it would be one thing to see it behind glass but the volunteers had built an arduino interface to drive it and interface it to bring it back to life, and hearing them explain how everything works with the requisite enthusiasm was a great experience for a vintage computer nerd. That sucker is pneumatic !

[0] https://www.computerhistory.org/storageengine/first-commerci...