A Look at some Retro Desktop Graphical User Interfaces

The graphical user interface (GUI) is commonplace on all computing devices today, but this was not true in the early days of computing. For the most part, to operate a computer you can to type commands.

Some computers had a command-line, such as those that used CP/M or DOS. Others would use BASIC as the interface, such as the Commodore 64 or Apple II. Wi…