Techno Babble

MacPaint was written by Bill Atkinson, who was a member of the original Macintosh development team. He based it on his earlier LisaSketch (also called SketchPad) for the unsuccessful Apple Lisa computer, so he originally called it MacSketch. He started work on the Mac version in early 1983.

Why am I telling you this ?

The source code for this early PC application has been officially donated by Apple to the Computer History Museum in California. The material remains Copyright to Apple Inc and is available only for non-commercial use.

Read a detailed article from Bloomberg Business Week at

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ByteOfTheApple/blog/archives/2010/07/apple_donates_macpaint_source_code_to_computer_history_museum.html

and visit the museum at

http://www.computerhistory.org/highlights/macpaint/

What’s Bill Atkinson up to today …

http://www.billatkinson.com/Homepage.pl

The Autodesk File tells the history of Autodesk and its principal product AutoCAD through a collection of documents edited by the Autodesk founder and former CEO John Walker.

Tracing the history from the original idea through to 1994, the document is available in various formats from

http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/

and is available locally as a PDF document

http://www.kf12.com/blogs/uploads/afpdf.zip

CADAZZ is a history of CAD software according to Chris Bowd.