OT: Who deserves the credit for the rapid growth in graphical computing?

[Bruce Easton]

When I was a contractor at Sun Micro in the late 90s, many of the 
supervisors I talked to seem to have backgrounds at either IBM or HP. Of 
course no surprise there - they all had a presence in the valley at the 
time.  In the mid 80s I was working at a secretarial school and they had 
a number of those IBM Displaywriters.  I was just looking but couldn't 
find an image of the model they had - it had a portrait display - I've 
never seen them before then nor since.  I didn't realize till now how 
expensive those dedicated WPs were.  The wiki page says about almost 8 
grand each.  The school also had a Wang dedicated WP that sat in the 
corner.  No one could figure out how to boot it up - but it looked nice 
to potential students.

On 1/24/17 2:36 PM, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list wrote:
> The few mentions of Microsoft today made me wonder if not because of 
> Microsoft, who then is to be credited!?!
>
> Apple?  IBM?  AT&T?
>
> I was excited to see windows for the first time ... I mean, it was as 
> close to a hot date as it got!  I know, sad.
>
> Granted, unlike you guys, I really did not see the age of computing 
> grow since I came to USA in 1985 and saw my first computer in the HS I 
> attended, bought my first PC a couple of years later 8088 compatible 
> PC with 256K of memory, two floppy disks and I think it had a hard 
> drive but really, I cannot even remember.  I do recall having to swap 
> disks a dozen times before I got to a command prompt.
>
>
>



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