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Never used MacDraw, but I remember installing and using ClarisWorks in middle/high school, I never did actual programming at that age, but I loved playing aroun
by calf 1y ago
Never used MacDraw, but I remember installing and using ClarisWorks in middle/high school, I never did actual programming at that age, but I loved playing around with the Mac's word processing, drawing, painting programs, making little art layouts, outlines for class notes, stuff that that.
- WillAdams 1y agoSadly, programming wasn't really feasible on the Mac per se due to Bill Gates' manipulations: https://www.folklore.org/MacBasic.html https://www.folklore.org/MacBasic.html Eventually we got HyperCard: https://www.folklore.org/Joining_Apple_Computer.html https://www.folklore.org/Joining_Apple_Computer.html
- kragen 1y agoWow, somehow I had never heard the sad story of MacBasic. It's such a perfect example of why people don't trust Microsoft.
- WillAdams 1y agoAs someone who wasted a lot of time trying to get a graphical project to work in Microsoft's Basic for Macintosh, I'm still angry about it, and wonder how the trajectory of my life might have changed had MacBasic been available for me to purchase instead (unfortunately, things were set/quite different when HyperCard came out, though I did greatly enjoy _The Manhole_).