No longer would people have to memorize key commands! No longer was the computer a plaything of the geeky intelligentsia! The menus would list all available commands, and the mouse would choose them.Įven Apple, though, hedged its bets. Then came the Apple Macintosh, which popularized the mouse as standard equipment. If you wanted to issue a command to your computer, you typed it.
In the beginning, there was the keyboard.