The Mac calculator's original design came from letting Steve play with menus(arstechnica.com)
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The Mac calculator's original design came from letting Steve play with menus
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/the-mac-calculators-original-design-came-from-letting-steve-jobs-play-with-sliders-for-ten-minutes/
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sure, and it was the day after the visit to Xerox Parc
I'm not sure of the timing (and whether you're sarcastic) but yeah, I found it funny compared to PARC showing Steve Jobs how the Smalltalk environment allowing modifying GUI behavior at run-time let them iterate quickly, sometimes in front of users (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uknEhXyZgsg&lc=UgwYCZ7PefOXO...).
I guess https://www.folklore.org/Calculator_Construction_Set.html is the closest you get with a compiled language :-)
P.S. https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/parc.html has good historical context on that visit(s)
I guess https://www.folklore.org/Calculator_Construction_Set.html is the closest you get with a compiled language :-)
P.S. https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/parc.html has good historical context on that visit(s)
The Mac calculator’s original design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for ten minutes