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From: francis@arthur.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HyperCard sellout
Message-ID: <1990Oct4.175541.17442@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 90 17:55:41 GMT
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In article <38814@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> thom@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Thom Gillespie) writes:
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>What I think the right thing to do is to make sure everyone gets a HyperCard
>version which can read, write, create -- just like in the past, and just like
>a pencil. Low cost, functional tool. A run time version is yesterdays
>marketing ideas today, very backwards. HyperCard is very close to the tool
>for doing hyperInfo because anyone can use it and change it. In terms of
Has anybody looked into setting up a newsboard that would contain
stacks? Then you could write a HyperCard-based interface that would access
the net for you (does a stack to read news now exist?), download, & put you
into the stack directly.  (Or, perhaps, with appleEvents, another app could
access the net, & tell HyperCard to open up the downloaded files.)

>This is not directed at Steve Maller, it is directed at the Soda salesman.
>
>Let's send all our empty pepsi cans to Apple in protest.
Huh? (In the first place, why would we have empty PEPSI cans--unless we had
maliciously dumped the gunk out on the ground? In the 2nd, well, basically,
huh?)
>
>HyperCard was supposed to make the Memex come true.
What's the Memex?
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