| A Pictorial History of the "Apple Desktop Interface" 1979 - 2000 |
 | July 1979 Prototype ( Developed on an Apple ][ ) - Area for application status messages
- Cursor controlled with cursor keys to layout lines, text, boxes and data fields.
- Prompt and Message ares. Arrows indicate possible cursor movements.
- Softkey Area shows the current set of ten choices.
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 | February 1980 Prototype - Iconic prototype panel for selecting drawing tools. Special FlipBooks for browsing choices for ruler, font, pattern and line styles.
- Cursor controlled with the mouse or cursor keys.
- Menu area with choices selectable via the Mouse or the Softkeys.
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 | March 1980 Prototype - Iconic panel on top of the window.
- Cursor now controlled with the mouse. Used here in a dialog box.
- Scrollbar with an elevator to show the current vertical position. Horizontal arrows slip pages left or right.
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 | August 1980 Prototype - Pull down menu bar attached to the window with the window grow icon.
- Windows that collpase to their folder tabs for viewing multiple documents. The Scrap for cutting and pasting.
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 | October 1980 Prototype - Pull down menu moved to the top of the screen.
- Horizontal and vertical scrollbars are attached to the window frame.
- Multiple overlappying window with clipping.
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 | December 1980 Prototype - Browser-like display with individually resizable panes.
(Looks a lot like the NeXT-style "Browser View" coming in Mac OS X, doesn't it?) |
 | July 1981 Prototype (Notice the dialog slides out from under the menubar. Remind of you the new feature in Mac OS X?) |
 | Lisa Office System 1.0 (May 1983) |
 | Lisa 7/7 Office System 3.1 (1984, Final Release) (Notice the Desk menu holding both running apps and Desktop items with open items indicated by a checkmark. Lisa Office System was a cooperative multitasking environment with protected memory.) |
 | January 1984 |
 | 1987 - Macintosh System 4.2 (Finder version 6)
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 | 1995 |
 | Summer 2000: Mac OS X (January 2000 MacWorld Keynote) |
