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Digital paint program

Recorded year1973

Richard Shoup's SuperPaint at Xerox PARC lets artists paint pixels on a screen, later winning an Emmy for TV graphics.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.