On Tue, 8 May 2001 08:54:12 -0400 Jeff Hellige
<jhellige_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 8, 2001, at 08:17 AM, John Honniball wrote:
> > When I worked on presentation graphics software, back in
> > 1986/7 (long before PowerPoint!), we made a sale to a
>
> The days of Harvard Graphics too. Wasn't it the first of the
> Powerpoint-type programs to become popular?
Harvard Graphics was one of our biggest competitors! There
were a few companies doing business graphics, at a time
when many PCs were monochome text-only. We produced a CGA
(320x200x4 colour) version called PPS (Personal
Presentation System) and an EGA version called EPPS. Then
there was the ill-fated Olivetti version for the M24 add-on
graphics board. We had 1500 copies made, with fancy
manuals and slip-cases, and sold 27 of them.
But wasn't there a package called "The Dog And Pony Show"?
We ended up selling an American program called Kinetic
Graphics that could do very high-res 35mm slides, but
couldn't cope with European A4 size paper.
--
John Honniball
Email: John.Honniball_at_uwe.ac.uk
University of the West of England
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