Harvard Graphics, from Software Publishing Corporation and initially called Harvard Presentation Graphics, is a graphing/plotting/presentation creation application for DOS.
It was extremely popular in the late 1980s.
At release, it competed against many graphing products such as PFS:Graph (AKA IBM Graphing Assistant ), Microsoft Chart, ChartMaster, and Cricket Graph, just to name a small few.
A Windows port was released in 1991, but it lost out to Microsoft Powerpoint.
Harvard Presentation Graphics A.00 is the very first release of Harvard Graphics.
This version is historically notable for using one of craziest floppy copy protection schemes found on IBM PCs.
To create a working floppy disk, you must use the included Kryoflux, SuperCard Pro, or Transcopy images.
A PSI image is also included for use with the PCE emulator.
The copy protection is incompatible with some later computers.
The install/deinstall will not work in PCE, but it can be run directly from the floppy.
The copy protection method stores the text "SPC1986" in the gap area immediately after the sector data of some sectors on cylinder 5.
It can read this data by doing a special non-standard track read, but a normal FDC can not create this data.
Harvard Graphics. impression.
One of this program's best features is its interface.
use; it's actually convenient.
actually use graphics to show their purpose.
functions are impossible to guess - and Harvard Graphics is no exception.
example, the Open Symbol Library icon is a picture of a truck.
resolutions.
sure every screen has a similar look and feel.
and 12 different slide types within each.
from different cover page layouts to bar graphs to organizational charts.
an instant slide show.
Don't like the available templates or slide types?
Windows Metafile, and a host of other formats.
structured draw images and add creative flourishes, to existing art.
curved, textured, and made three dimensional.
multimedia options.
MIDI music and in the background through CD audio.
play back FLC, FLI, and MMM animation and AVI and Quicktime videos.
module that will run without Harvard Graphics.
There's a lot to like about Harvard Graphics.
Harvard FX), it has an ease-of-learning factor that's simply unbeatable.
Harvard Graphics. impression.
One of this program's best features is its interface.
use; it's actually convenient.
actually use graphics to show their purpose.
functions are impossible to guess - and Harvard Graphics is no exception.
example, the Open Symbol Library icon is a picture of a truck.
resolutions.
sure every screen has a similar look and feel.
and 12 different slide types within each.
from different cover page layouts to bar graphs to organizational charts.
an instant slide show.
Don't like the available templates or slide types?
Windows Metafile, and a host of other formats.
structured draw images and add creative flourishes, to existing art.
curved, textured, and made three dimensional.
multimedia options.
MIDI music and in the background through CD audio.
play back FLC, FLI, and MMM animation and AVI and Quicktime videos.
module that will run without Harvard Graphics.
There's a lot to like about Harvard Graphics.
Harvard FX), it has an ease-of-learning factor that's simply unbeatable.
Harvard Graphics remains a notable case study in early presentation software design, its innovations, copy protection quirks, and competitive context shaping the trajectory of graphing and slide-based applications.
Presentation Software - An Introduction | Class 4 | Computer | CAIE / CBSE | PowerPoint 2013
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