On these pages you will find many screen shots of various desktop computer Graphical User Interfaces and operating systems. Many different people have had different ideas of how a GUI should work and these screen shots show many of the more popular ones.

If you haven't already, don't forget to laugh really hard at the new Microsoft Bob: Windows 8! (Or cry, if you are forced to use it)

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I have created fresh disk images of the Visi On Disks. Note that these still will not create working copies.
VisiOnDiskImages.zip

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Did you know Microsoft Word 1 for DOS could use a mouse, and was allegedly a "WYSIWYG" back in 1983?
My review of Microsoft Word for DOS 1.15!

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And after much feet dragging, I have finally scanned in the Visi On Manuals! (Warning: These are large PDF files. We will see how my bandwidth holds up)
Visi On AM Setup Guide.pdf
Visi On AM Users Guide.pdf
Visi On Calc QuickStart.pdf
Visi On Calc Users Guide.pdf
Visi On Calc Working In Windows.pdf
Visi On Graph QuickStart.pdf
Visi On Graph Users Guide.pdf
Visi On Word QuickStart.pdf
Visi On Word Users Guide.pdf

Since I was at it, I also did VisiTrend/Plot:
VisiTrend.pdf
VisiTrend.zip

And for further historic preservation:
MS Word 1.00 for DOS Manual.pdf
MS Word 1.00 for DOS Manual 1.1x Update Pages.pdf
Microsoft Word 1.15 for DOS.zip
New:Microsoft Word 1.00 PC World Demo.zip

Not that anyone ever read it, but here is the Windows 95 manual. It is interesting to note that it does not mention Internet Explorer, and how they promote their MSN service over anything to do with the Internet.
Windows 95 Manual.pdf

And my all time favorite manual, The B215 8-bit ISA high density floppy controller. A perfect example of how NOT to write a manual.
B215.pdf

If anyone wants the larger, higher resolution PNGs or raw scans, let me know.
 

And finally, sometimes you just have to see GUIs in action: http://youtube.com/toastytech

If you find anything on this site that doesn't work right, or if you have any suggestions please e-mail me! (If you do, please be absolutely sure to put something meaningful in the subject line, otherwise it will get deleted as spam)

And be sure to check out my favorite GUI VisiCorpVisi On now with a downloadable hard drive image that you can run under MESS 0.101 or later. Back in in 1983 there was a GUI platform and office package for IBM PCs called Visi On from VisiCorp. Legend has it Bill Gates saw a demo of this running at the 1982 comdex running on an IBM PC. He freaked out because Microsoft didn't have anything like this yet, ran back to Microsoft Headquarters, and had them start work on what, several years later, became Windows.

And if you haven't already, don't forget to laugh really hard at Microsoft BOB!