Gallery: Tech Time Warp of the Week: The Mother of All Demos, 1968

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    Doug Engelbart, working at an NLS workstation in the 1960s. Alan Kay describes him as biblical. "He looked more like Moses than Charleston Heston and had one of the most craggy faces of all time," Kay says. *Photo: Courtesy of SRI International/Computer History Museum.*
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    Don Andrews, Bill English, and Doug Engelbart at SRI's Augmentation Research Center during a meeting with sponsors of the program. The meeting was driven by NLS, which was used to display the agenda, show off the system features, and perhaps lay out other documents. Each participant had access to a display and a mouse. *Photo: SRI International.*
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    The input devices of the NLS system, mounted on a custom Herman Miller swivel console. *Photo: SRI International.*
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    Doug Engelbart shows off his errand route using NLS. *Image: SRI International.*
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    Bill English and th eNLS workstations. English co-invented the mouse with Engelbart, orchestrated the Mother of All Demos, and was the brains behind most of NLS's technical resources. He was "a wonderful person, who has not received anywhere near the recognition he deserved," according to Alan Kay. *Photo: SRI International/Computer History Museum.*
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    A screenshot of NLS. *Image: Computer History Museum.*
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    Doug Engelbart's mouse prototype. *Photo: SRI International.*
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    The keys on the NLS' keyset were the predecessors to the function keys at populated machines in the 80s, 90s, and beyond. *Photo: Computer History Museum.*
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