Apple designer Bill Atkinson shares a look through his rare collection of Polaroid photos from the Lisa computer’s development

#AppleLisa #BillAtkinson #ComputerHistory #History #RetroComputing
https://www.theverge.com/c/2023/2/3/23578172/lisas-family-photos

Did #BillAtkinson accidentally dox #DouglasAdams in 1987? :) Confirmed, 22 Duncan Terrace in Islington was DNA's address for a whle.

From the 1987 Computer Chronicles on Hypercard at 06:39: https://archive.org/details/CC501_hypercard

Did #BillAtkinson accidentally dox #DouglasAdams in 1987? :) Confirmed, 22 Duncan Terrace in Islington was DNA's address for a whle.

From the 1987 Computer Chronicles on Hypercard at 06:39: https://archive.org/details/CC501_hypercard

@Licht11

Oh neat! I wasn't sure if the old 68k could handle non-hand-assembly-optimized GUIs at all.
The original macs were at least half a decade ahead of their time, thanks largely to #BillAtkinson and his #QuickDraw.

@AnachronistJohn

You mean you can ssh -X to the mac and get a window on your local machine? Not too bad. I'd love to see it running natively, but I can't imagine how slow it must be :D

People don't remember just how hand-assembly-optimized *everything* in classic MacOS was. They had the very fastest graphics routines anywhere.
#BillAtkinson was a flipping genius.