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catrancher
20-07-2010, 08:20 PM
For any of you that are old enough to remember the original Macintosh (1984), you would know that it came with a revolutionary program called MacPaint. If you had a Mac back then, you used it and were amazed by it. Much like today's iPad.

Well, that software now has a permanent place in history. The source code to it has been archived into the Computer History Museums archives and is freely available to the public. See this article:

MacPaint source code archived online (http://www.macworld.com/article/152817/2010/07/macpaint.html?lsrc=rss_main)

Just in case you lost your orginal!

Tom (:macwave:... and it didn't have an "I"!)
Keith
20-07-2010, 09:32 PM
yep I was excited to read that this morning :) and written in pascal which I always enjoyed :yes:
josh.p.
20-07-2010, 09:35 PM
I wasn't even thought of in 1984 :rotfl:
Keith
20-07-2010, 10:00 PM
I nearly wet myself when I saw the first macintosh :) then again when I saw the superbowl ad, then again when I saw the apple laserwriter :) :lol:

good days indeed
catrancher
20-07-2010, 11:08 PM
Oh... well here ya go. It's 1984 all over again!

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Tom (:macwave:... big brother!)
Keith
20-07-2010, 11:11 PM
best ad ever, still makes me shiver
catrancher
20-07-2010, 11:30 PM
:thumbsup:

:yes:

Tom (:macwave:... Mr. Orwell was wrong! More or less.)
Lisa1976
21-07-2010, 09:31 AM
I loved my first MacBook, I had an orange one :)
Keith
21-07-2010, 09:31 AM
I loved my first MacBook, I had an orange one :)

oo one of the clamshell ones?
Lisa1976
21-07-2010, 09:39 AM
oo one of the clamshell ones?

:yes: Yup that was the one!
DisneyAddict
21-07-2010, 09:59 AM
I had one of the blue wedge desktops :D loved it and a friend had a sort of apple cube thing
catrancher
21-07-2010, 11:34 AM
a friend had a sort of apple cube thing

Ahhh... the old Power Mac G4 Cube (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube)! :thumbsup:

Tom (:macwave:... Mac of all trades!)
Keith
21-07-2010, 12:29 PM
Ahhh... the old Power Mac G4 Cube (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube)! :thumbsup:

Tom (:macwave:... Mac of all trades!)

reminded me or ORAC from blakes7
catrancher
21-07-2010, 01:13 PM
reminded me or ORAC from blakes7

Cool looking guy, gadget, thing... :unsure:

We didn't get blakes7 on this side of the pond that I know of. At least I never got to see it. :lipwobble:

Tom (:macwave:... deprived of yet more TV history! Oh well, at least I've still got ALF!)
Keith
21-07-2010, 01:44 PM
We didn't get blakes7 on this side of the pond that I know of. At least I never got to see it. :lipwobble:
)

gasp! Blakes 7 was great! Orac the sarcastic computer :D
catrancher
21-07-2010, 01:54 PM
Orac the sarcastic computer :D

scurries off to check Youtube. :exit:

Tom (:macwave:... sarcastic computer? Sounds like my day job!)
josh.p.
21-07-2010, 04:35 PM
I was watching the old keynote from when the introduced the clamshell iBook (the orange one)
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and I had to laugh, imagine if you showed the people in that room the latest macbook, or the iPad or iPhone!
catrancher
21-07-2010, 04:45 PM
imagine if you showed the people in that room the latest macbook, or the iPad or iPhone!

Moore's law and all that! Still 5 more years to go! :eek:

Tom (:macwave:... progress is our most important product!)