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From: torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Hypercard GS is for SALE???
Message-ID: <1990Dec9.205941.27077@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 9 Dec 90 20:59:41 GMT
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vw3@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Vernon Williams) writes:

>This is true, but the price for Hypercard was $50. I expected Hypercard
>GS to be about the same price. I suppose we have to see what CLARIS 
>is selling Hypercard for before we blast Apple for this though. 
>Admittedly it would have been nice if there'd been a slightly lower
>price for HCGS though.

  Claris charges $199 for Hypercard 2.0 for the Mac if you want to get
all the help stacks, example stacks, and books on how to script.  The
stripped down version which comes free with every new Mac only has two
or three stacks, and no examples of how to script (it's basically a
run-time only version).

  In my opinion, $99 is a fair price from Apple when comparing it to
what Claris gives you.  It would have been nice to have it included
free with every new IIgs. But since it doesn't run on a IIgs out of
the box without adding extra hardware, I don't see that it's a major
omission.  

  Perhaps the more important thing is for Apple to start building the
IIgs with 2MB Ram standard.

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