A History of Apple GUI

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icfireballicfireball
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in macOS edited January 2014
This site has a complex history of Apple's GUIS of Mac OS X through out the ages starting at System 1 to OS X Leopard:



http://www.guidebookgallery.org/guis/macos



What is the most interesting is the GUI in Apple's OS X dev. previews (betas and dev preview screen shots are includded as well as release version).



OSX DP 1 and 2 had very OS 9 looking views with interesting Navigation features. OSX DP3 got the Aqua interface, and a strange Apple logo in the middle of the menu bar:



http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/macosxdp3



Check it out!

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  • Reply 1 of 9
    feynmanfeynman Posts: 1,087member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by icfireball


    This site has a complex history of Apple's GUIS of Mac OS X through out the ages starting at System 1 to OS X Leopard:



    http://www.guidebookgallery.org/guis/macos



    What is the most interesting is the GUI in Apple's OS X dev. previews (betas and dev preview screen shots are includded as well as release version).



    OSX DP 1 and 2 had very OS 9 looking views with interesting Navigation features. OSX DP3 got the Aqua interface, and a strange Apple logo in the middle of the menu bar:



    http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/macosxdp3



    Check it out!



    Anyone love how the production version of the Calculator has changed very little since the Apple II?
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  • Reply 2 of 9
    icfireballicfireball Posts: 2,594member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Feynman


    Anyone love how the production version of the Calculator has changed very little since the Apple II?



    I know :-)



    What is really odd was the Apple menu in the middle in DP3 of Mac OS X.
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  • Reply 3 of 9
    outsideroutsider Posts: 6,008member
    Want to know what happened when you opened an application with a lot of menus? It wasn't pretty.
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  • Reply 4 of 9
    feynmanfeynman Posts: 1,087member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by icfireball


    I know :-)



    What is really odd was the Apple menu in the middle in DP3 of Mac OS X.



    Actually it was just an Apple logo, no menu. It was like this in the public beta as well.
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  • Reply 5 of 9
    atomichamatomicham Posts: 185member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Feynman


    Actually it was just an Apple logo, no menu. It was like this in the public beta as well.



    Yep, it was just an ornament. It made it match the imacs at the time (which had the little apple icon in the top center of the plastic above the monitor.



    It was really stupid. Numerous applications had menus that would extend over it.



    BTW, there was no apple menu at all, which caused quite an outcry.





    Also, they have the early shots wrong. System 4 did not have multifinder, yet they show multifinder there. Multifinder appeared with System 5 (that was when I bought my first Mac, aaaaahh).
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  • Reply 6 of 9
    trobertstroberts Posts: 702member
    I was never interested in Macs until I saw the WWDC2003 Panther demo so I do not have any experience with OSes prior to Panther so I have two questions for those that have been long time Mac users. Which OS did you find the most stable and which OS was your favorite (and why)? I read somewhere the 8.6.5 or whatever was the last version of MacOS 8/System 8.



    Looking at the screen shots of the first developer preview I could see a lot of NeXT it them and I am glad Apple got rid of the Aqua (pinstripes) by the time I purchased my first Mac.
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    132ghz,4tb ddr8 sdram,95tb hdd132ghz,4tb ddr8 sdram,95tb hdd Posts: 126member
    Hooked since OS9 8)

    Saw it.

    Loved it.

    Brought it. (Along with a Mac)
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  • Reply 8 of 9
    addaboxaddabox Posts: 12,665member
    Huh. I didn't think I had as much problem as some with pinstripes and brushed metal and bulbous gel buttons of early OS X, but looking back it looks really over-done, compared to what we have now (and where we appear to be going).



    Of course, in a few years I'll be posting that I didn't have a problem with Mail's Tiger interface but looking back (from, I dunno, Ocelot?) it occurs to me that it's hideous.
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    atomichamatomicham Posts: 185member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by addabox


    Huh. I didn't think I had as much problem as some with pinstripes and brushed metal and bulbous gel buttons of early OS X, but looking back it looks really over-done, compared to what we have now (and where we appear to be going).



    Of course, in a few years I'll be posting that I didn't have a problem with Mail's Tiger interface but looking back (from, I dunno, Ocelot?) it occurs to me that it's hideous.



    Heh, that is funny because looking at those images, I was struck by the same thing.



    At the time, OS X looked so cool. Viewing those images now, it is very tacky.



    Kudos to Susan Kare because the original Mac windows, etc. still look elegant and subtle.



    Man, that OS X beta, 10.0 *shudder*.
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