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From: jost@alice.coyote.trw.com (Patrick Jost)
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Subject: Brainpower (was What ever happened to Chipwits?)
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Date: 11 May 91 19:50:59 GMT
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In article <1991May10.165549.27037@odgate.odesta.com> dbk@odgate.odesta.com (Dan Keith) writes:
>In article <1091@igor.Rational.COM> wab@Rational.COM (Bill Baker) writes:
>>
>>When the Mac first reared its little beige head, there was a
>>very cool game called Chipwits...
>
>
>Chipwits was written by BrainPower, Inc. I think they are now extinct
>(unfortunately for all of us, IMHO). Two years ago they wrote a very neat
>hypertext editor called ArchiText, which was powerful, but had a few
>MacFlaws (e.g., Undo didn't work). I waited and waited for a new version,
>then eventually tried to track them down and found out they had
>disappeared. If anybody knows anything about either of these programs, or
>where I could get a hold of the authors, I'd be grateful.



I can help. Brainpower went bankrupt last year due to legal problems. The
owner/founder, Sherwin Steffin, is still around, but he's not in a position
to do anything about the products. As part of the liquidation, the rights
to the products were sold to various companies around the country. I contacted
the people who bought Architext, and they're not going to do anything with
it for some time...bad luck for us.

Unfortunately, I think Brainpower, Chipwits, Architext and Statalyzer (their
stat program with a hypertext interface) are dead. Sherwin's looking into
starting another company, though, and I suspect it will be something
interesting.


PJ

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