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From: dak@bismarck.mips.com (Dave Kearney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Hypercard 2.1 - the beginning of the end
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Date: 16 May 91 21:40:07 GMT
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I thouht I was clever... when hypercard 2.0 arrived late last fall I quickly
called up BMUG and ordered my floppies.  $15 and I was set.  Now with 2.1
almost out, it appears that all of our fears are starting to become true.

Hypercard  is no longer available through user groups...  With Hypercard 2.1
Claris has closed that channel down.

... pause to let that sink in...

The "easiest" way to get Hypercard now is to purchase it from claris... it's
so simple... yahoo

oh yeah... there's another way... if I "buy" system 7.0 from a dealer , hypercard comes 
with it...  but not if I purchase 7.0 from a user group.

I suppose if I purchased a new mac in the last 6 months my upgrade would 
be for "free"...  but I haven't so it isn't.

 
I just have one question...  If I want to create a Hypercard stack using 2.1 (assuming I purchase 2.1)
that I want to pass around my company, does everyone  that wants to access that stack have to purchase
2.1?

There was a whole lot of yelling and screaming last fall about Apple and Claris closing down the channels
for Hypercard.  A lot of people said "wait and see... and trust us..." .  Now I can see the beginning
of all of those nasty predictions coming true...

  


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David A. Kearney                           MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.
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