Last week Businessweek published that Apple donated their original source code for MacPaint to the Computer History Museum.

The very well known MacPaint was launched in early 1984 with iMac, and is still remembered by everyone. MacPaint is a family member of the original Macintosh that was launched back in the same year. It was a fully loaded and well-featured device from APPLE Inc.

The technologists and computer scientists who are popular for first-of-their-own-kind creations in the past also reviewed the device with good words.

The people who are fond of photo editing and graphic designing, or have acute interest in Adobe Photoshop are effectively aware of MacPaint features, such as the lasso tool for selecting non-rectangular shapes, and the paint bucket for filling closed areas with a pattern.

Although inventions are unique when they are new but later with more competitive and advanced similar technological gadgets appearing in the niche, their abilities are reduced and they become history. The 18 page advertising brochure circulated with Time and Newsweek in December, 1983 introduced an ad with the concept of using a mouse to click on the screen. The MacPaint was pictured as an exemplar application that operates windows/mouse interface at the very young age of computers and technology. The MacPaint source code now exhibits 5,822 lines of Pascal and 3,583 lines of 68000 assemblies and early QuickDraw library that it includes, was actually based on 17,101 lines of 68000 assemblies.

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