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===GRASP 1.0===

In 1984 Doug Wolfgram conceived of the idea of an animation scripting language that would allow graphics images to move smoothly across a computer screen under program control. Persyst Systems hired Wolfgram's company to develop some graphics and animation for their new graphics card, the BoB board. The marketing manager from Persyst then moved to AST computer where he brought in Wolfgram to do similar animation work for the AST line of peripheral cards for PCs. 1

Wolfgram saw the growing demand for multimedia so he brought in [[John Bridges (software developer)|John Bridges]], with whom he had co-developed PCPaint for Mouse Systems in 1982. Together they co-developed the early versions of GRASP for Wolfgram's company, [[Microtex Industries]]. Subsequent versions followed. Version 1.10c was released in September 1986.<ref>http://archive.sunet.se/pub/multimedia/HDF/pub/misc/file-formats/graphic-formats/grasp.doc</ref>