Subject: IGOR - the roots
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I still miss the hunchback that appeared when you clicked on the Igor icon...
Can we bring that back?
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Forrest
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From: Jeremy Bergsman jeremy at bergsman.org
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:42:30 -0400
To: Igor Mailing List <igor at igor.nhmfl.gov>
Subject: Re: IGOR - the roots
And just yesterday I was wondering whether to discard my Igor 4.0 CD.
Now I can dispense with my packrat shame for keeping it.
While talking versions, I still fondly remember that the version after
3.13 was version pi. How many bug fixes did you guys hold back to
make sure you got to that version?
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:59 PM, stephen e. schwartz<ses at bnl.gov> wrote:
> I still have my copy of igor 1.0, a blue 3.5 inch "double sided"
> floppy, with a second floppy called "igor Extras".
>
> I also have in my posession a brochure "New Version 1.1" that has in
> the upper right corner in something like 72 point bold serif font
> "Igor" and then under that in small print "Igor(e' go^r) n. a
> scientist/engineer's asistant. 2. I(bold)nteractive
> g(bold)graphics-o(bold)riented r(bold)esearch tool." The brochure is
> dated (c) 1989 and denoted "Igor 1.1; brochure 1.0".
>
> I also have the back panel of a box (c) 1994 that actually shows a
> picture of Igor: long nose, glasses (or protruding eyes) 5 bold wavy
> hairs. "The Scientist/Engineer's Assistant". System requirements 4 MB
> memory or more; 68020 or better CPU and math coprocessor recommended;
> System 6.0.7 or later; System 7 recommended. Those were the days.
>
> steve
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> At 12:33 PM -0700 8/11/09, Howard Rodstein wrote:
>> >1) What does the name "IGOR" stand for?
>>
>>This is so obscure that I could not find the answer via:
>>
>>1. Google
>>2. Spotlight on my computer
>>3. My Igor 1.24 manual
>>4. My copy of the Fall, 1990 issue of "TargetWindow" (the WaveMetrics
>>newsletter published once a decade or so)
>>
>>I finally found it on the Igor Pro 1.2 brochure. It stands for:
>>"Interactive Graphical Operations for Research".
>>
>>>2) What is the history of IGOR? Who developed it, when (first official
>>>version) and for what purpose (spectrometry??) ?
>>
>>My recollection is that Igor was started in early 1987. It was started by
>>Dr. Larry Hutchinson (President of WaveMetrics, Inc.).
>>
>>Larry recruited me that spring. I started to teach myself C using my 1MB
>>Mac Plus (which started life in 1984 as a 128K Mac) with one 512K floppy
>>drive and a stunning 9 inch black and white monitor.
>>
>>I got a job in 1978 as Larry's technician at Princeton Applied Research, a
>>scientific instrument manufacturer. Not long thereafter, Larry designed and
>>we built the PAR Model 4402 Signal Processor. We obtained pre-production
>>samples of the Motorola 68000 microprocessor and built a computer, designed
>>by Larry, based on it. A prototype of the 4402 is in my attic and still
>>worked the last time I checked (circa 1992).
>>
>>The 4402 software was written in Forth by Larry with a little help from me.
>>It had features like waveform acquisition, synthesis and display, Fourier
>>transforms and smoothing. I wrote the RS-232 and GPIB I/O functionality for
>>it.
>>
>>IGOR (or as we more often call it, Igor), was conceived as a
>>general-purpose data analysis and display program for scientists and
>>engineers. The name was suggested by Larry's wife, Kim, to connote
>>"scientist's assistant".
>>
>>Igor 1.0 shipped on two floppy disks in January of 1989.
>>
>>Tom Peterson and Jim Prouty joined the company in 1989 and are still with
>>us. Jim suggested the name WaveMetrics.
>>
>>Howard Rodstein
>>WaveMetrics
>>
>>
>>
>>
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