Old-ish Graphic Apps

[John Foust]

At 02:03 PM 8/13/2008, Richard wrote:
>    John Honniball <coredump at gifford.co.uk>  writes:
>
>> I used to write presentation graphics software for the London
>> Software Studio, back in 1986-88.  Harvard Graphics was out big
>> competitor at the time -- what happened to it?
>
>It appears to still be around <http://www.harvardgraphics.com/>

Well, sort of.  As the About page says, "In 2001, Serif Incorporated 
acquired the exclusive marketing rights to all Harvard Graphics products."

SPC tanked in the mid 90s.  Although I consulted there in '90-92 in 
the Madison and San Jose offices after helping to create the illustration 
product that was sold to SPC and eventually became Harvard Draw and 
then Harvard F/X (and as still available in Serif's Harvard Graphics 98
product), and helped with the conversion filters for Harvard Graphics 
for Windows, I don't remember much of their end story.  
Hmm, here's a clue:

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,2064443,00.htm

Looks like there's a recent recollection in the IEEE Annals:

http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/mags/an/&toc=comp/mags/an/2008/02/man02toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/MAHC.2008.31

And some at the Computer History Museum:

http://www.computerhistory.org/corphist/view.php?s=events&id=1293

And there's a web for alumni:

http://home.ix.netcom.com/~jeff/

- John