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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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brought the friendly interface to thousands of personal computer users. But it was simple to interface with the computer: the processor just read frequent samples of the potentiometer positioning signals through analog-to-digital converters. In 1984, the low-cost Macintosh from Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, Calif.,

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