Watching young children draw their first picture ever on a computer truly blew my mind. What stands out in my own memory is the number of parents who were telling their children "DO NOT TOUCH" and those kids who went ahead and sat down anyway. Just like today Apple was encouraging the public to get their hands on them and try them out. Computers simply were not that immediate to use. You need to understand, this was in an age where absolutely no-one (especially in NZ) had ever seen a mouse let alone a bit-mapped graphical screen.
I remember participating in an expo at the Winter Show Buildings on Hutchison Road in Wellington where we laid out a number of tables with 128k Macintosh computers replete with mouse and keyboard (not unlike today's Apple Stores). The most important thing about any tool in personal productivity IMO is whether the tool gets used in the first place.īack in '84 I had the great privilege of being National Accounts Manager representing Apple in New Zealand. Kudos to all the programmers and entrepreneurs who made that possible.
#EAZYDRAW RETRO UPGRADE#
It is sobering and inspiring to see business continuity with data files whose information persists after 37 years following a surprisingly seamless upgrade journey. iWorks seemed to be a misadventure, but upon the end of life of AppleWorks, a portion of those drawing files were converted by EazyDraw Retro offered by Dave Mattson and Dekorra Optics and today still breathe life in version 10.7.4 of EazyDraw. Needless to say, many of those documents found their upgrade path into ClarisWorks then AppleWorks.
#EAZYDRAW RETRO MAC#
I remember when the only programs you could get on Mac were MacDraw, MacPaint, MacWrite and Multiplan (Microsoft's take on VisiCalc, to one day become Excel). The collaboration and ease of use between MacDraw and MacPaint files into MacWrite documents is something those clients wish they still had today - current offerings from Microsoft Office, Adobe and Google Drive do not even come close in terms of personal productivity. I have more than one long-standing client who had substantial investments in data drawn on Mark Cutter's MacDraw program, including some data files going back to 1985 (a year after the Mac release). Those seeking something like MS Paint or Adobe Illustrator may be a bit miffed, but for those looking to do CAD and vector graphics work, this is an incredibly powerful and simple suite of tools.What a journey down memory lane.
#EAZYDRAW RETRO FULL#
The price is a bit steep in my opinion, but it is chocked full of features (some of which I don't really use), so maybe the price is justified if you utilize every possible feature in this suite. Cerrax, A perfect replacement for ClarisWorks/AppleWorks It's interface is fairly similar and is extremely easy (hence the name!) to work with. Those seeking something like MS Paint or Adobe Illustrator may be a bit miffed, but for those looking to do CAD and vector graphics work, this is an incredibly powerful and simple suite of tools.
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