Personal Computing: Historic Beginnings

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windows and an icon-based GUI, desktop publishing, object-oriented programming, and many others. In this lecture, Alan Kay first presents a historical overview of computing and technological developments that led to personal computing and influenced his thoughts on creating the Dynabook. Then Kay is joined by Charles Thacker and Mary Lou Jepsen in a panel discussion moderated by Steve Hamm of BusinessWeek magazine. ... Computer History Museum Kay Notebook Laptop PARC Thacker Jepsen Dynabook ...