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From: jkc@Apple.COM (John Kevin Calhoun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: 2.0 Hypercard goes GOLD
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Date: 13 Sep 90 19:46:55 GMT
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> If you wanted to calm the angry natives, perhaps you could post a
> HyperCard 1.2 version of the stack "Top 10 Reasons Why HyperCard 2.0
> Has Not Shipped Yet" to this group? You know, the one you showed at
> the User Group Breakfast at Boston Macworld. Just a thought, as I hear
> the knives being sharpened and the pot being brought to a boil.
>
> :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)

Well, Adam, if you'd been taking notes you could have published them in
TidBITS.  But, OK, here goes.  I'll post them here.


The Top 10 Reasons HyperCard 2.0 Has Not Yet Shipped
----------------------------------------------------

Disclaimer:  It's all lies.  Lies lies lies.

These lies are fictitious.  Any similarity to actual lies, fibs, or
prevarications is purely coincidental.

These lies are the property of the HyperCard Development Team.  Any
rebroadcast, retransmission, or use of the pictures, descriptions,
and accounts of these lies without the express written consent of
the HyperCard Development Team would really be a bad thing, and in
poor taste too.

Additional Disclaimer:  These are last month's lies.  This month's
lies are very different.


10.  Bill left without telling us how it worked.

9.   We were saving it as a going-away present for Jean-Louis.

8.   It tooks months to get the color out after we discovered
     that the manuals didn't mention it.

7.   We introduced it at the annual developers' conference,
     and we thought there was a rule that says that anything
     you introduce at a developers' conference you can't ship
     until after the next developers' conference.

6.   Bowling shirts just take longer than T-shirts.

5.   For most of us, it was a great way to avoid sweltering
     in Boston in August.

4.   It took months to devise all those phony seed releases,
     with all those phony bugs, which we were doing only as a
     clever ruse, of course.

3.   Nobody told us you were supposed to finish the thing first.

2.   Howard Spira had his money on System 7.0.

1.   We couldn't ship until we had tested it with the new
     Macintosh LX, the one with the impressive performance,
     quiet ride, and distinctive styling, all for under $25,000.
     See your dealer today.



Kevin Calhoun
Software engineer
Apple Computer