scuzzBlog: Diaries September 2019 Entry 26th September 2019: Post 01: Graphical User Interface and GEOS. Graphical User Interface and GEOS. Was reflecting today on the timeline relating to the GUI. I guess I always thought the Amiga would have been late to the party and say GEOS much earlier. Anyway, I was a touch surprised. Timeline: Xerox PARC [ as early as 1975 ] and 1981 with the Star, Symbolics Lisp based machines came along in 1981, and then we had the Apple Lisa in 1983 and 1984 with the MAC. On to Tandy DeskMate 1984 and GEM 1985 then we get the Amiga 1985 and Windows 1.0 1985, followed by RISC OS in 1987. So where does GEOS fit into all of this. Surprisingly GEOS dates from 1986. And almost too late as it targeted 8-bit machines at the beginning of the 16 bit era. Saying that, GEOS was used Used with the Apple II and IBM PC with PC/GEOS. But the granddaddy of them all was PARC. This was a follow on project from the early work of Douglas Engelbart's Augmentation of Human Intellect. An interface based on children's books no less. XEROX picked up the ideas and created an interface that already had fixed menus and could be used to move, copy and delete files. That earlier work dates back to the early seventies. So you see sometimes your own perceptions of timelines can be so easily shattered. There I was thinking GEOS was at the start line when it came to the GUI, when in fact the Amiga looks to have pipped it to the post. Graphical User Interface and GEOS. Previously on scuzzblog OK Booting first the System disk That shouldn't happen.. Bugga Fortunately I have a Back-up I also have my GEOS from the 1351 box Don't worry I have loads of GEOS disks This is where I flip the disk over But first I tried to copy the GEOS System disk and gets the normal response Anyway to job in hand and I formatted a test disk and then attempted to copy the flip side Applications software from my System Backup disk.... I like the grey and not the blue. Don't ask This is what you should see on the GEOS Application disk. When accessing disks its best to close the current disk and then open the new one from the drop down menu. Amazing that there are spelling mistakes in the GEOS book and they refer to menu tabs as boxes Like I said I swapped out the floppy and mouse in the hope of making the process easier So with your formatted disk it really is just a case of copying the Application disk I called my Working disk EXTRAS and was successful in creating my own copy. The idea is that you boot with your GEOS System disk and then use your own working disk for the Applications and your own work Time to test out my new EXTRAS disk So far so good

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