Tom Glod wrote: > Here is a great interview with Bill..... in which he reveals .... > among other things...... that when he invented Hypercard he was ....
If you ask Walter Cooke, he answers: "I too miss HyperCard, but I also used Xerox's Notecards software BEFORE Bill invented Apple's version for the Macintosh. Google "Xerox Notecards" to read some history of where the concept and OO implementation originated. Poor Xerox - they invented so much but couldn't market their way out of a wet paper bag. A lot of educators were very impressed with Notecards and wanted at their universities real bad. The military loved it for buiding real-time visual simulations. I wanted to use it for building bond trading software. Unfortunately Xerox workstation cost $30K apiece at that time! I remember arguing with Andy Hertzfeld at the '87 MacWorld Expo where HyperCard was announced and demoed on the sexy new Mac II. He was adamant that HyperCard bore no resemblance to Notecards, but grudgingly agreed that he HAD seen Notecards at Xerox and knew what it was. Hmmm.." https://apple.slashdot.org/story/04/03/31/1550216/hypercard-gone-for-good BUT if you ask Paul Heckel, he would say: "Zoomracks was first..." http://www.atarimagazines.com/startv2n3/hypercard.html And now that I remember Paul Heckel, read about his winning lawsuit against Apple for patent-infringement: http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/20/business/apple-is-said-to-settle-suit.html Al _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
