Original version of Adobe Photoshop in 1990 free from Computer History Museum
The Computer History Museum presents the first original version of Adobe Photoshop 1.0.1 for free.
The history of Photoshop
Photoshop, the program, with the more than countless images have been created and even has its own verb (Gephotoshoppt / Photoshopped), was published in 1990 by Adobe. And although the photo-editing software today can easily cost a few thousand dollars, you now have the chance to try the original version for free in 1990. However, we doubt that you do a lot with this rather outdated software.
The original version of Adobe Photoshop is of the Computer History Museum for free and of course only be made for non-commercial purposes.
The roots of Photoshop extend into the late 1980s, when Thomas Knoll, phD student at the University of Michigan, and his brother, John, who worked for George Lucas’s Industrial Light & Magic, together wrote the program. Together they developed a user-friendly application, the first iteration was connected to a slide scanner called Barneyscan. The program was baptized Barneyscan XP, although it had nothing to do with Barney Rubble and not running on Windows XP. No wonder, then, that only 200 copies were sold.
However, it really was enough for Adobe became aware of the Knoll brothers and they also acquired the rights to the program, and then to publish Photoshop 1.0.
Adobe Photoshop 1.0.1 and its codes
The original code of Photoshop consists of 179 files, and from more than 128,000 lines of code.
About 75 percent of the code were written in Pascal, 15 percent has been programmed in a code that was specifically for the Motorola 68000 processor, which the original Macintosh operating. The remaining 10 percent were created in other programming languages. Today’s Adobe Photoshop As opposed to the original version than 10 million lines of code.
While the Computer History Museum has available most of the code for Photoshop 1.0.1, still lacks the MacApp Framework, which was licensed by Apple. So long as you do not have original Macintosh has, of standing around somewhere with you, you can probably assume that not many people will be able to download the program and actually try.
Nevertheless, you can here the code for Photoshop 1.0.1 Download from computer History Museum.