MacPaint

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Entityproprietary software raster graphics editorQ1411882

Instance of: proprietary software
, raster graphics editor
Founded: 1984

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MacPaint is a raster graphics editor developed by Apple Computer and released alongside the original Macintosh personal computer on January 24, 1984. It was sold bundled with its word processing counterpart, MacWrite, for US$195. MacPaint was notable because it could generate graphics that could be used by other applications. It taught consumers what a graphics-based system could do by using the mouse, the clipboard, and QuickDraw picture language. Pictures could be cut from MacPaint and pasted into MacWrite documents.

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Developer: Apple Inc.
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Archives at: Computer History Museum inventory number: 102658007, 102743021
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1.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102743021Retrieved 2016-12-29
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Written in: assembly language
Readable file format: MacPaint Graphics
MacPaint
MacPaint Image
Latest version: 2.0
Discontinuation date: 1998
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1.computerhistory.org/atchm/macpaint-and-quickdraw-source-code/Retrieved 2019-01-07
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