How The AIDS Epidemic Caused Apple To Change MacPaint

Cult of Mac
By John BrownleeOct 3, 2012, 8:42 am229 pts
Back in 1983, when Apple was first developing MacPaint and its less-featured sister app for the Apple II, MousePaint, they had a menu option called “Aids” which contained image manipulation tools. You can see this menu in documentation for the original AppleMouse II. Before release, though, this menu was…

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