11 Mar
2007
11 Mar
'07
8:52 p.m.
FWIW, it's a shadow of it's former self... but the Compuserve vintage
computer forum has files for download with dates going back to 1982......
http://community.compuserve.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=library&webtag=ws-…
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At 05:36 PM 3/11/2007, you wrote:
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 16:04:08 -0700 (PDT), Chris M
wrote:
The only graphics package (besides Autocad)
that was graphics oriented was Lumena, and that was so
old I sincerely doubt gifs were around then.
GIF was developed by Compuserve in 1987, although at that
point they were also pushing RLE images. Yes, Lumena predates
that by at least four years.
AutoCAD is vector oriented, not pixel-oriented, although at
some point Autodesk may have introduced a tool that rasterized
a vector drawing and exported it as GIF.
At 06:31 PM 3/11/2007, Bob Bradlee wrote:
Compuserve had a gif viewer editor for just about
everything that
could display graphics.
What ever happened to tha old compuserve GIF
utilities.
Same as all the rest of the interesting files at Compuserve:
protected into oblivion when they were steamrolled by the Web.
I wonder if they bothered to keep backup tapes of all the
forum discussions and file collections. That would be
endlessly fascinating for historical purposes... millions
of posts going back to the early 80s... Maybe a few will
turn up some day.
- John