The original Macintosh took me by suprise in 1984 because, as a hobbyist with limited access to research literature, I wasn't aware of the work at Xerox PARC and elsewhere on Graphical User Interfaces. I was familiar with the text and graphics modes of home and personal computers but the mouse-driven interface came out of the blue for me.
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@amoroso The first time I came across a Macintosh (which I had never heard of before) was at a computer camp in around 1985. I remember being fascinated with the GUI, the mouse, but most impressively, the little hard floppy disks that would auto eject! It felt worlds away from my Commodore VIC-20!
I still have my first Apple - a Mac SE FDHD from 1987!
@amoroso Lisa had been in a bunch of magazines the year or two before, but nobody could afford one. I'd seen video of Sutherland's Sketch and played with light pens, so figured it was like that.
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