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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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make a low-cost “appliance”-type computer that would be as easy to use as a toaster. The materials-delivery system, designed with the help of engineers recruited from Texas Instruments in Dallas, Texas, divided small and large parts between receiving doors at the materials distribution center.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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In 1984, the low-cost Macintosh from Apple Computer Inc., Computer graphics artist Norm Cox, now of Cox & Hall, Dallas, Texas, was finally hired to redesign the icons. 12, 1989, PC Magazine contains six articles on graphical user interfaces for personal computers and workstations. Cupertino, Calif., Smith et al.,

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