Macworld Expo: Jim Rea talks about the early days of Mac development

When Apple first introduced the Macintosh, there weren't many authorized third-party developers around... even fewer unauthorized ones, when you think about it. One guy did manage to sneak in the back door and ship his app for the original Mac on an accelerated schedule: Jim Rea, the founder of ProVUE Development.

The company's original database for the Mac, OverVUE, was the 2nd commercial app to ship for the platform (Microsoft's Multiplan was #1). The DB application later evolved into Panorama, which continues to run on the Macs of today.

Jim was kind enough to share some of his memories from the early years, and update us on the soon-to-ship Panorama version 6. Both videos are in the continuation of this post.

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kev

Panorama is such a great product, it's unfortunate that no one knows about it!

February 18 2010 at 8:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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mjb

Panorama is not a great product! It is a bloody, super-fantastic, unbelievably awesome product!!! I've been using it and its predecessor OverVUE since 1984. No computer user should be without Panorama, and that includes all the Windoze users, too; they should get the Windows version of Panorama.

March 29 2010 at 3:36 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply