after seeing an offhand comment in another forum expressing curiosity about the original poser interface, i couldn't resist dusting off the old performa, firing up my copy of poser 1.0 (circa 1995) and posting some screen shots. i have a ton of ancient software still around, all the way back to the original macpaint and macdraw. i even still have a macplus to run those on as well.

as you can see, the poser 1 figure (male shown) was very rudimentary.

flat shaded, with the parameter dials and library palettes open.

wireframe closeup -- the p4 "dork" gets a lot of crap these days, but when he showed up, a lot of people were very happy to see him.

fully rendered closeup -- running on a 25mhz machine under os 7.5 with 20mb ram and 20mb of virtual ram took about 20 min to complete. note the lack of eyeballs, and check out that ear!

closeup of the hand, which was not poseable, but instead used morph targets accessible from the figure menu. can't get away with that today!

not very impressive today, but very exciting stuff back then -- human 3d models and cheap software to manipulate them was just about nonexistent, and who could afford the hardware to run it? certainly not me.