The machine had just 128KB of memory and had two applications - MacWrite and
MacPaint - which were run on a 400KB floppy disk drive.
Creator of the
MacPaint program, Bill Atkinson, recalled how Jobs pitched in recruiting him, as being a grad student at the time, he was reluctant to join but Apple flew him to Cupertino and Jobs personally convinced him.
"THE EIGHTIES CALLED, They Want Their Painting Back": This was one of LAURA OWENS's nicknames for a recent work, whose acid neons and dragged filigrees certainly suggest a gleeful bout with
MacPaint circa 1984.
I bought one (it is still in my basement) and began to explore the new world of computing with tools like MacWrite,
MacPaint, MacDraw, and a Professional Bibliographic System to help create and save bibliographies.
His other writing includes "MacCats -- 99 Ways to Paint a Cat with
MacPaint" and "Maggie and the Moneysuckle Tree -- a Young Person's Guide to Building Wealth." Mr.
Each one came with the software package
MacPaint. People who had bought a Mac to do nothing more exciting than write documents and calculate finances were able to experience the creative potential of a computer.
He borrows from Douglas Adams' reaction to using a Macintosh and
MacPaint as "'that kind of roaring, tingling, floating sensation....in the blink of an eye ...all the teletypes and dumb terminals and character-based displays ...
It's reminiscent of the early GUI days and such programs as
MacPaint that enabled just plain folks to instantly create drawings.
I allowed my students to "play" with MacDraw and
MacPaint after they had completed assignments.
However, it is the ability of GIS to perform spatial operations (address matching, buffering, overlays, etc.) rather than the choice of database model that distinguishes GIS from the other computer programs (spreadsheets - Lotus 123, Quatro, etc.; statistical packages - Minitab, SAS, SPSS, etc.; drafting packages - Easy-CAD, etc.; and drawing packages - Coreldraw,
MacPaint, etc.), which also utilize spatial data.[4] Address matching, buffering, and overlay capabilities are found in many different GIS software packages and they are used here to illustrate how some of the spatial operations could be applied to local government projects.
This new version stores 160,000+ images per catalog in file formats such as EPS (Mac/PC), PICT, TIFF, JPEG and
MacPaint. Users can search across up to ten catalogs at one time, and images can be mounted locally or off-line.
Wonderful pictorial experiences await children who experiment with computer programs such as Kid Pix (1991) or
MacPaint (1989).
