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Before email you had to develop computers by taking Polaroids and delivering them on a motorcycle to your colleagues.

At least, that’s how Apple designer Bill Atkinson did things when he made the Lisa.

Atkinson shared his binder of Lisa development Polaroids with the Computer History Museum, and we had the pleasure of selecting some of our favorites to publish on The Verge:

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