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MacPaint Source Code Released to Museum

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the keep-it-away-from-ben-stiller dept.

gbooch writes "The Computer History Museum, located in Mountain View, California, is not only a museum of hardware but also a museum of software. Today, with the permission of Apple, the Museum has made available the original source code of MacPaint. MacPaint was written by Bill Atkinson, a member of the original Macintosh development team. Originally called MacSketch, he based it on his earlier LisaSketch (also called SketchPad) for the Apple Lisa computer. Bill started work on the Macintosh version in early 1983. "

3 of 175 comments (clear)

  1. Nothing on Mac OS X by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Funny how Macs now lack the equivalent of MacPaint.

  2. Folklore.org by suntory · · Score: 5, Informative

    It has been mentioned a few times here in /., but http://folklore.org/ has a great collection of short stories about MacPaint. Worth the reading for every geek out there

  3. Re:Whaaaa? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Explanation: it was a reference to Apple's automated testing framework, as per the zero-score reply you can't see:

    http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Monkey_Lives.txt