Documentation, Windows Paint User’s Guide by Microsoft

Description:

This documentation is the User's Guide for Microsoft Windows Paint, version 1.0. Along with Windows Write, this software, was packaged with Microsoft’s Windows operating system, released in 1985. Paint was a drawing tool that helped create, enhance, save, and print artwork. It used menus and function keys instead of commands and instructions. Microsoft promoted the software as a “useful drawing tool that’s easy to use.”

See also 2012.3098.031 and 2012.3098.032

Reference:

Popular Science May 1986, p. 16d.

Date Made: 1985

Maker: Microsoft Corporation

Location: Currently not on view

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Computers, Computers & Business Machines

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Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 2012.3098.030Catalog Number: 2012.3098.030Nonaccession Number: 2012.3098

Object Name: documentation

Physical Description: paper (overall material)Measurements: overall: 8 1/2 in x 6 7/8 in x 1/8 in; 21.59 cm x 17.4625 cm x .3175 cm

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b1-c825-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1695400

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