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Apple had its own plan to regain leadership: a sophisticated new generation of computers that would be dramatically easier to use. In 1979 Jobs had led a team of engineers to see the innovations created at the Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto (California) Research Center (PARC). There they were shown the first functional graphical user interface (GUI), featuring on-screen windows, a pointing device known as a mouse, and the use of icons, or pictures, to replace the awkward protocols required by all other computers. Apple immediately incorporated these ideas into two new computers: Lisa, released in 1983, and the lower-cost Macintosh, released in 1984. Jobs himself took over the latter project, insisting that the computer should be not merely great but "insanely great." The result was a revelation-perfectly in tune with the unconventional, science-fiction-esque television commercial that introduced the Macintosh during the broadcast of the 1984 Super Bowl-a $2,500 computer unlike any that preceded it.

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First computer with GUI and mouse?

Apple Lisa


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The Xerox Alto was the first computer to use a Graphical User Interface (GUI)


Who was the first to conceptualized the design of the modern computer?

The first ever GUI face computer was developed by Xerox however it was big and clunky. Steve Wozniack (Woz.org) invented the first personal computer and was partners with Steve Jobs and opened up a company called Apple. Yes, Apple and MacIntosh. Steve Wozniack still answers emails and you can read his stories when Apple started at his website under either Woz.org or IWoz.org. Bill Gates then also used the Windows GUI interface you see today on all Windows and the rest is history. But to answer your question Xerox created the first computer called the "Alto" and the first Personal Computer was invented by Steve Wozniack with Apple.


What is the difference between non-GUI computers and GUI computers?

GUI stands for "graphical user interface". An example of a GUI would be Windows XP/Vista, both are interactive and have icons, start menus, desktops, etc. A computer without a GUI will usually be text-based, meaning only text is shown on the screen and no icons or desktop. Note that a GUI is not linked to the computer itself and is usually linked the OS or a program.


Who invented window screens?

The graphic user interface, or GUI, was first invented by XEROX PARC for their ALTO computer. Apple then stole the idea and put it in the Lisa, which Apple overpriced and failed. The first successful personal computer with a GUI was the Macintosh 128k, soon replaced with the 512k, as even back then 128k was too small for an advanced system. Then Microsoft stole it from Apple and in the 90s, when Apple was declining, Microsoft stole their place.

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Who was the first to conceptualized the design of the modern computer?

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