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1980
Les Miller, a former textile designer and lecturer in woven
structures at the Scottish College to Textiles, embarks upon a research
project into the use of computers for woven textile design. The
project begins as an experiment in BASIC programming with very rudimentary
computer hardware.
1983
Dave Kemp is employed as research programmer to help make
the project more commercial. The British Technology Group (BTG)
become involved in the funding and promotion of ScotWeave and a
distributor, Pragma Ltd. is appointed. 
1984
The first version of ScotWeave is made commercially available
running on a Chromatics graphics computer controlled by an IBM PC.
The programming language has now changed to Pascal for more power
and speed. The software is for dobby fabrics only and is sold in
the UK and USA.
1986
Alan Watters is employed as support programmer as ScotWeave
expands.
1987
"ScotWeave 2" is launched running on IBM PC/AT
and "Io Research Pluto" graphics box. An interface card
in the PC connects to the separate graphics processor box via a
cable. A simple textual user interface is displayed on the PC screen
and the graphics are displayed on a separate colour screen. Still
written in Pascal but with speed-critical modules in low level Assembly
language, ScotWeave now provides software for both jacquard and
dobby, including an interface for the Bonas CAPS3 EPROM system.
1990
"ScotWeave Professional" is launched. This is a
major rewrite with the software now written using the Microsoft
"C" programming language. This is the first ScotWeave
program to use a graphical user interface with mouse control. The
program runs under MS-DOS on IBM-PC compatible hardware with the
addition of a high performance graphics card.
The software initially uses a specialised
TIGA graphics card but then migrates onto industry standard (VESA)
graphics hardware which also means it is fully compatible with Windows
95 when it is launched.
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