| 1955 |
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Light guns - SAGE air defense system and its predecessor, the Cape Cod System at MIT |
| 1960 |
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Light pen as screen pointer |
| 1962 |
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Joysticks - Analog air traffic control displays in the late 50s, e.g., the rbde-5(Radar Bright Display Equipment) made by Raytheon. |
| 1963 |
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Douglas Engelbart receives a patent on the mouse pointing device for computers. |
| 1968 |
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Douglas Engelbart, of the Stanford Research Institute, demonstrates his system of keyboard, keypad, mouse, and windows. |
| 1975 |
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Pointing device with on-screen pointer Doug Englebart@SRI(mid 70s). Cursor changes to show context David Tilbrook(Newswhole). Menus - LRG@Xeros PARC (approx). dimming of inactive buttons David Tilbrook(Newswhole). |
| 1976 |
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Popup Menus - Ingalls(LRG)@Xerox PARC |
| 1978 |
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(approx) Keyboard-based hierarchical menus UCSD's Pascal system. Bitmapped displays CSL@Xerox PARC, for the Alto. PERQ was first commercial product. Dialog Boxes Xerox PARC(property sheets). Multiple fonts & styles in text Xerox PARC. |
| 1979 |
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Hierarchical menus - Xerox PARC (Smalltalk) |
| 1980 |
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(approx) Pulldown menus, menu bar, disabling of menu items, command keys for menu items, check marks on menu items - Apple. Move/Copy.Delete - Xerox PARC. |
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