used a desktop metaphor with pulldown menus, had ethernet, laserjet printing, email, and reggie -- spreadsheets, and word processing. this was in 1972. steve jobs was inspired to create the lisa at apple, which then became the macintosh. the things we take for granted, the desktop computer, the little garbage can on mac and windows, all came from the xerox alto. story in the history of computing, where steve jobs complained that bill idea for stolen the the computer from apple, and bill gates said that is not true, we both the lid from xerox. -- stole it from xerox. this gallery shows all the member processor computers that were available for sale in the 70's and 80's. probably the most significant one is right here, the apple one computer, designed by engineer steve walked the act -- steve wozniak and steve jobs. they sold about 220 of these. some of these you could build in kit form. was a hobbyist machine, so was aimed at likedad, people who soldering and collecting things to their tv. steve jobs said you know what, if we made a computer for normal people, rather than nerds, i think we could

it had a system that used a desktop metaphor of pulldown menus, it had ethernet, laserjet printing, email, and spreadsheets and word processing in 1972. steve jobs saw this machine and was inspired to create the lisa at apple, which became the macintosh. the things that we take for granted, the desktop metaphor, garbage can, pulldown menus, icons on the mac and windows, all came from the xerox alto. there is a funny story in the history of computing where steve jobs allegedly complained to bill gates that bill gates had stolen the idea for windows from apple. bill gates responded, that is not true, we both stole it from xerox. that shows you the intellectual depth that the alto generated and which continues to affect us today and the computers we use. we are in the personal computer gallery right now, which shows the different microprocessor-based peters that were for sale -- microprocessor-based computers for sale in the 1970's and 1980's. we still use them today, but that was the heyday. the most significant one is right here, the apple one computer designed by steve wozniak and steve j