From the Apple Macintosh with its graphical-user interface to the Xerox PARC Alto, ... The first IBM personal computer, introduced on Aug. 12, 1981, used the MS-DOS operating system.

Retro Tech Week In the early days of microcomputers, everyone just invented their own user interfaces, until an Apple-influenced IBM standard brought about harmony. Then, sadly, the world forgot. In ...

1980s: The Graphical User Interface. The Xerox Star 8010 was the first commercial computer system to come with a mouse, as well as a bitmapped, window-based graphical user interface (GUI ...