Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!swatsun!hankins From: hankins@cs.swarthmore.edu (Luke Hankins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: HyperCard 2.0 (press release) Message-ID: Date: 26 Sep 90 20:20:02 GMT References: <44987@apple.Apple.COM> <3920@tellab5.tellabs.com> <45145@apple.Apple.COM> <1990Sep26.004233.25633@nada.kth.se> <90269.104119Q8N@psuvm.psu.edu> Organization: Swarthmore College, PA, USA Lines: 23 In <90269.104119Q8N@psuvm.psu.edu> Scott D. Camp writes: >Actually, HC 2.0 has been given to my university for public distribution. It >is a free upgrade, takes 5 800K floppies (of course, the 'tour' takes one of >these five), and appears to be a really good product. I think the HC >development team deserves a lot of credit. Of course, you don't get the >manuals with this type of upgrade, but then there is a HyperTalk reference >stack that helps alleviate this need if you also have some of the popular >HyperCard 2.0 books. I've gotten some hands-on time here, as well. (not much, tho, aren't classes a pain in the patooka?) I was able to put the stuff I needed for exploring onto a 1.4K and an 800K. So far it looks really nice, kudos to the development team! -luke (And the HT reference stack is really well done, too...) -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Luke Hankins hankins@cs.swarthmore.edu |"I don't care anymore" -P Collins for(MyAge=0;!Dead;EnjoyLife); |"I'm here and here I'll stay" -SOC While not (EndOfLife) do Havefun(me); |"...stay sane inside insanity..." -RHPS