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Photos: The birth of the Lisa and Mac interface

by ZDNet Author  |  July 19, 2006 11:35am PDT  |  Image 2 of 53

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From spring 1979, this photo shows the very first characters ever rendered on the actual Lisa display system, featuring the 720-by-360 resolution that remained constant all the way through to the shipping product. No Lisa existed yet; these were done on a wire wrapped prototype card for the Apple II. Note the variable-width characters.

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