On 24th January 1984, Apple introduced the Mac. Beginning in 1974, he and colleagues at Xerox Corporation Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) implemented several text editors that used cut/copy-and-paste commands to move/copy text.” “Larry” Tesler proposed the names “cut” and “copy” for the first step and “paste” for the second step. History Of The Clipboardįrom Wikipedia “Inspired by early line and character editors that broke a move or copy operation into two steps-between which the user could invoke a preparatory action such as navigation-Lawrence G.
The ancient Mac OS clipboard is the same but anyone can upgrade it by adding CopyPaste. Decades passed, now in 2021 another complete rewrite of CopyPaste has taken place. Overtime new features were added, additional clips, more features like actions on clips, additional clipsets were added to the clip history. It remembered 10 clips and was the first multi-clipboard utility for any computer. At that time it was a revolutionary invention and productivity enhancer.Ībout that time we came out with the original CopyPaste which allowed the Mac to use and remember multiple clipboards from within any app.
The system clipboard allowed copying text or graphic into a ‘system clipboard’ in one app, quitting that app, launching another app and pasting from that same ‘system clipboard’. To overcome this early limitation Mac OS was the first to use a system clipboard. Sharing in these ‘before times’ was difficult. Once upon a time apps were not multi-tasking.