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From: "William McMillan" <wmcmillan@emich.edu> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 9:59 AM To: "Ian S. King" <isking@uw.edu>, "sigcis" <members@sigcis.org> Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Fwd: When was first campaign for computer users' freedom
OK, now I realize what people are saying -- the menus in UCSD Pascal were not "drop-down." Sorry, I'm so used to letting the term trip from my fingers that I mistyped.
Yes, they were single letter menu commands on a character-based "graphic" screen.
They did influence the development of drop-down menus at Apple.
- Bill
Just for reference purposes, I have a UCSD Pascal system running on my Sage II Computer. This micro pre-dates the Apple Lisa, it's all bare-bones, text-based. Here is a photo, not sure if version IV.13 is an upgrade from the original. http://vintagecomputer.net/pictures/2011/SageII_Televideo_Pascal/UCSD_Pascal _Terminal4.jpg Here is a set of photo screen shots of the terminal. http://vintagecomputer.net/pictures/2011/SageII_Televideo_Pascal/ Bill Degnan vintagecomputer.net