Oh, yes, I do recall. That's why the very first purchase most Macintosh 128K buyers made was for the additional external floppy drive which eliminated most of the disk swapping required to do anything.
My disagreement with Talisker was his apparent agreement with the statement that the Mac couldn't do that simple "Hello" at introduction when I knew very well that it easily could, having done that and more, although at the time I was not a Mac user. I was programing an Apple II and later I was a Commodore Amiga user where I ran a virtual Mac which ran faster in emulation than a real Mac ran on hardware.
I have no disagreement with Talisker that MacPaint was developed on the Lisa, which also ran on a Motorola 68000 processor. . . but my point was that the Mac itself was perfectly capable of accomplishing the same graphical capability by the time it was introduced in early 1984, regardless of the nit-picking issue he was supporting Blue Highway's point with by saying it was built pixel-by-pixel. Even on the Lisa, Apple had a program that could already do that drawing called LisaSketch which was also written by Bill Atkinson.
Now, on my MBP, I run NINE (9) desktops (with multiple apps running on each) -- simultaneously!
I have run that many different OPERATING SYSTEMS in different desktops on my main MacPro — simultaneously! There was some guy last year that ran 26!
: sigh :
I never said that. Nor did I imply it. I actually had an original 128K Mac in January, 1984, with original release software, with which I recreated "hello" myself many times.
In fact, that was my point in my reply to Blue Highway, that not only was it possible in 1984, it was actually done in 1983.
Also the in-house design artist, Susan Kare, was one of the first people to get a working Mac, because she developed ALL of the visual interface, literally creating the fonts and icons pixel by pixel. And the creator of MacPaint, Bill Atkinson, worked closely with her, because she used the program so intensely she became his beta tester. As a result MacPaint was one of the most stable initial release programs, even more than the Finder.
But all of the initial release graphics were done in 1983, of practical necessity alongside the development of the Mac hardware and software, and with that same hardware and software as it approached release status (which frankly was still beta, but they were out of time). And so, while the Mac was used as often as possible, sometimes if only to test functionality, as well as MacPaint, sometimes that functionality required MANY redoes from lost crashed work, and yes, even after initial tool use, pixel by pixel creation (which turned into the pencil tool), as well as the paintbrush tool.
Enough.