Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "The Computer Chronicles - Business Graphics for the Mac (1988)" video.

  1. 3:00 Adobe Illustrator was breathtaking when I first saw it in 1988. And the demo disk had Bach’s Sixth Brandenburg on it, which was also pretty cool. However, techno-geek that I am, I soon discovered that it would not let you easily change the type of a control point between a smooth and corner join. When Aldus FreeHand came out soon after, it did have that feature, so I preferred it. Then, sometime in the 1990s, Adobe acquired Aldus, and Macromedia along the way as well. It kept PageMaker and Flash, and possibly also Fontographer, but it got rid of FreeHand. These days, I use Inkscape. Which has all these features, and more. And interoperates nicely with other tools, like GIMP and Blender.
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  2. 10:24 Surprising that the MacDraw family never had the ability to handle Bézier curves, as far as I can remember. Illustrator showed the way, and other tools, including GraphicWorks/ComicWorks and Canvas from Deneba (which I bought a personal copy of) did follow that.
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