My apologies, Talisker. Perhaps I misinterpreted your response about the drawing, essentially seeming to say it had been faked in 1983 as a pixel-by-pixel construct, instead of being an everyday capability of the original Mac, which is what Blue Highway was challenging. Such pixel-by-pixel constructs had been around for years prior to 1983. . . where a flowing stroke drawing was a new creation for a computer to accomplish both in 1983 and 1984. Both of us were trying to stress that functionality.
Apology accepted. FYI, despite my sometimes freely given criticisms of the intersection of Apple’s politics and products, I’m a staunch Mac devotee and probably always will be. There’s always been a level of superiority of that product line that to me has always been apparent, and highly and uniquely satisfying. And I acknowledge that Jobs was the prime driver of that level of excellence, even though he had the morality of the opposite of his angelic Apple PR reputation. Now if they could just stop selling Macs in exchange for bricks of platinum, that’s be great. But I say that having paid $2,500 for my 128K Mac in 1984, plus $500 for an external floppy drive and another $500 for an Imagewriter printer - and for the same money I could have bought a fairly nice car. So I’m not holding my breath, and I long ago acknowledged my addiction.