The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10

Re:The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 by icebraining on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @07:10AM (#22168618)

Not just Steve Jobs: the development of the Apple Newton (arguably the precursor to the iPad) was in part led by Larry "NO MODES" Tesler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Tesler http://www.nomodes.com/

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Re:The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 by Stratoscope on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @04:05AM (#22178705)

Here is Larry's 1981 BYTE article about modes, complete with a "DON'T MODE ME IN" T-shirt made by a mutual friend:

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08/page/n103/...

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Re:The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 by acqq on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @04:07PM (#22185837)

Thank you. It's a big article, it starts on the page 90 and ends on 147(!) there. Also, the article is from 1981 and Tesler already works for Apple, as seen on the first page.

To compare with the article date, Apple Lisa was released January 19, 1983 (and, by the way, Macintosh January 1984, iPhone January 2007, iPad January 2010 -- Jobs certainly had a system).

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Re:The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 by acqq on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @07:59PM (#22176040)

Yes! Thanks!

"Primary inventor of modeless editing and cut, copy, paste."

http://www.nomodes.com/Larry_Tesler_Consulting/CV_files/NOMO...

Since cca 1973.

Reference: doi:10.1145/2212877.2212896

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