There was a lot going on at the time with visual programming (tossing blocks together to represent functional inputs and outputs) and other hypertext based systems. And some of the inspiration for graphical user interfaces did come from Xerox. There were the leading edge.
Ron and Eric should do a podcast...I would totally listen to that!
HyperPod: The HyperCard Podcast
@@RonsCompVids HyperPod the mudflap!
And next, we’ll talk about … rice.
Never liked Apple but did like the look and idea of Hypercard when I saw it years later.
So Apple took most of their early stuff from Xerox PARC then?
There was a lot going on at the time with visual programming (tossing blocks together to represent functional inputs and outputs) and other hypertext based systems. And some of the inspiration for graphical user interfaces did come from Xerox. There were the leading edge.
Everyone did and continues to. It's referenced in passing in this video but check out "The Mother of all Demos" if you haven't seen it.
What was the computer that was given away ?
It was my first Macintosh SE FDHD with 4MB of RAM and a BlueSCSI replacing the HD.