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Office Automation

• Progression:- Big number crunchers- Interactive tools for data processing- Hobbyist toys

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Office Automation

• Progression:- Big number crunchers- Interactive tools for data processing- Hobbyist toys- Tools for normal people’s work

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Word Processing

• Early attempts- IBM MTST (1964)- Wang 1200 (1974)

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Word Processing

• Wang WPS (1976)- First time a computer could be called “user-

friendly”- distributed system- $30,000

http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/wang_terminal.jpg

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Wang Laboratories

• Core Memory• Calculators• Minicomputers• Word Processing

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Xerox PARC

• DARPA: cut funding- Why?

• Xerox: feared “paperless office”- founded PARC (1970)

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Xerox PARC

• DARPA: cut funding- Why?

• Xerox: feared “paperless office”- founded PARC (1970)

• Result:- Researchers leave universities and join

Xerox PARC

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Xerox PARC

• GUI- “Windows, Icons, Menus, Point-&-click”

• Ethernet• Laser printer

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Xerox PARC

• GUI- “Windows, Icons, Menus, Point-&-click”

• Ethernet• Laser printer• Mouse?

- No.

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Doug Engelbart

• Mouse (1967)- two perpendicular wheels

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Firstmouseunderside.jpg

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Doug Engelbart

• Mouse Demo (1968)- Joint Computer Conference (San Francisco)

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Video Clip

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• First GUI-based computer (1973)• Not marketed commercially

Xerox Alto

http://pullmoll.stop1984.com/alto/

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• Screenshots

Xerox Alto

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Alto_trek.jpghttp://pullmoll.stop1984.com/alto/

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Xerox Star

• First commercial GUI computer (1981)

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Xerox Star

• First commercial GUI computer (1981)• Did not sell well.

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Let’s reflect

• Now GUI’s are everywhere.• So why did the early systems fail?

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“Test Question”

• On a scrap of paper, write a question that encapsulates one of the points from today's class, and turn it in.

• (Put your name on it!)