Talk:MacDraw

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I attended the UK dealer launch of Macintosh (128kB) and had a 110 volt only US machine for software development. It came with system disc, discs for MacPaint and MacWrite and a cassette tape introduction. Even in the UK the 240 volt version was launched with MacWrite and MacPaint only. MacDraw was in Beta for a long time after that, I would say about a year or more, after 1.0beta9 they added a digit and had to add another two before (it became almost 1.0beta9999 I think) before it was finally released. There is no way it was ready at the earlier US release of the Mac. I think the statement that MacDraw was released along with the Macintosh in 1984 is misleading at best. My company released a program I wrote called MacPlot before the end of 2004 and it was a companion product to MacDraw (still in public beta if I remember correctly) and MacDraft and any other vector programs and which was much later upgraded and shipped with Claris MacDraw 2 and MacProject and continued up to the end of the pen plotter era.

Does anyone know the official release date of MacDraw so it can be given in this article?

-- RogerHolmes (talk) 19:17, 16 November 2007 (UTC)