Welcome to Advent of Computing, the show that talks about the shocking, intriguing, and all too often relevant history of computing. A lot of little things we take for granted today have rich stories behind their creation, in each episode we will learn how older tech has lead to our modern world.
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episode 85: Visi On, the PC GUI
More Visi-fun ahead! Today we are looking at Visi On, a visionary user interface developed for home computers. Along the way we will discuss smalltalk, portability, and how the slick graphics over at Xerox were adapted to run on smaller machines. Selected Sources: http://toastytech.com/guis/vision.html - Toasty Tech's Visi On page, with screenshots and downloads for emulation https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1983-06/page/n255/mode/2up - A Guided Tour of Visi On https://archive.org/details/RosettaSmalltalkACM1979/mode/1up - Rosetta Smalltalk