 Permalink for comment 254607 Member since:  My point throughout
this thread has been that credit that should go to the original
inventors is usually taken by those who make the invention
popular. Steve Wozniak/Jobs may have sold a lot of kits and
Apple IIs, but they weren't even close to being the inventors of
the small computer with a keyboard and monitor that could sit
on/under a desk. Undeniably, Xerox had that years before Apple,
and the Xerox Alto also had a modern GUI.  Oh I absolutely
understand that view, there's many examples in the industry
where success is bestowed on the person who exploits the
technology, rather than the person who created it. (For the
record, I was a Commodore kid and cut my teeth on a Vic-20. I
dont regard the Apple II as something that was dropped from the
heavens by Saint Woz, however I do have a lot of respect for it
as one of the first microcomputers that came pre-assembled for
the home market.)  However, the Alto seems to be the only one of
the three that used a CPU that