[Talisker]

there’s no way that screen image of the graphics program that spelled out hello was able to do that in 1984. Way too smooth and no pixels. It was photoshopped even though Adobe’s Photoshop didn’t arrive until 1990.

That's because it was done pixel-by-pixel in 1983 on a Lisa, and then ported to the Mac as a graphic image for the photo shoot to be ready for the product intro in 1984.

[dayglored]

> That's because it was done pixel-by-pixel in 1983 on a Lisa, and then ported to the Mac as a graphic image for the photo shoot to be ready for the product intro in 1984.

That's very interesting. I had the opportunity to work on a Lisa prior to the introduction of the Mac, and it was really pretty cool. Not a speed demon, but back then, nothing on the desktop was. Had a 68000 as the main CPU and a 6502 for the display processor, as I recall.

I liked the document-oriented approach -- instead of opening a word processor application, you "tore off a piece of paper" to start a new doc. It made sense to me. Windows has the context menu "New..." function which does a similar thing; sadly, MacOS no longer has something like that.

[Swordmaker]

That's because it was done pixel-by-pixel in 1983 on a Lisa, and then ported to the Mac as a graphic image for the photo shoot to be ready for the product intro in 1984.

No, they did not. It was easily reproducible on an original Mac. I've done it myself, using MacPaint. . . not the Hello, but my own signature and other graphics. Quit making stuff up. MacPaint was demonstrated ON STAGE!

[Swordmaker]

MacPaint shipped with the Mac in February, 1984, fully functional.

MacPaint

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MacPaint
Initial release 1984; 32 years ago

MacPaint is a bitmap-based graphics painting software program developed by Apple Computer and released with the original Macintosh personal computer on January 24, 1984.