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/&a…
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