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Photos: The birth of the Lisa and Mac interface

by ZDNet Author  |  July 19, 2006 11:35am PDT  |  Image 26 of 53

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The first appearance of pull-down menus with a menu bar at the top of the window instead of the top of the screen, which is how Microsoft Windows still does things. By this point, the development team had given up on using a single scroll bar for both horizontal and vertical scrolling. The interface is starting to look very much like what the Mac shipped with in 1984.

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