It makes me laugh to see how to draw a flower, but I remember teaching that very same technique oh-so-many years ago. I had not seen Terry’s video before, but I thought to look for it because I’ve seen the one on Illustrator 1.0 so many times.
I don't think Russell Brown was easy to impress, and it sounds like he was totally blown away. Getting back to Terry's demo of 1.0, while it had limitations, it must have seemed like magic at the time. By heck, they were soooooo ahead of their time! I remeber thinking it pretty damn cool at the time though, and it was incredible being able to overly graphics onto video with a cheap genlock. I can't remember the exact display spec of my Amiga 1000, but I think it was 16 colours at high res, and 256 colours at the reduced res. You could pretty much hear the individual tones (just about) of the modem! It was 10Mb, and took over half an hour to download. I used an application called Turnpike for email and Usenet when I moved to a PC. I've just done a wee Google, and MS used special high density floppies for media distribution, with a capacity of 1.68Mb. When you consider that those floppies were not desperately reliable in those days, it was a relief to get to the last disk without problems. I can't remember how many floppies Photoshop 4 came on, but MS Office came on something like 30 1.44Mb floppies. I was also taken back to the days of floppy disks. I loved the bit where Russell Brown having seen the Knoll brother's presentation, ran into the boss' office and said 'Buy this now!'. Time travel back to Photoshop 1.0 with Terry White:
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