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From: korn@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Peter "Arrgh" Korn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: HyperCard
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Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 04:30:23 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 12 04:30:23 1987
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Imagine if you will a window that looks kinda like a finder window--it's
filled with icons.  One of these icons is a mini-phone book.  You open
it (single click), and are looking at a record in database; fields for
area code, state, and cities that share that area code.  You choose 'find'
and search for 'Pouhkeepsie', and in less than 1 second see a new record,
with '914' as the area code, 'New York' as the state, and a whole bunch
of cities in the cities field ('Poughkeepsie' is hilited).  You then click
on the phone book icon in the upper right hand corner of this window, and
are now looking at you phone list, with the first friend of yours who
lives in Poughkeepsie's phone number and address in the fields of this 
window.  Click in the 'dial' box, and you're dialing his/her number from
your modem.  Click on 'b-day song', and your mac will play the 'snd ' resource
that you recorded with SoundCap's digitizer (you'll have to manually mve
the phone pickup close to your mac's sound output).

Sound like a program you might want?  How much would you pay for such a thing?
But wait, there's more.  The program allows you to add new 'cards' at will,
and can handle an unlimited number of them.  Now how much would you pay for
such a thing?  But wait, there's more.  You can graphically edit any card
with editing tools far more powerful than those in MacPaint.  Now how much
would you pay?  But wait, there's more.  You can have the program plays
sounds you digitize with SoundCap at the touch of a button.  Now how much
would you pay?  But wait, there's more.  You can use the built-in pascal-like
programming language to make a card do most anything you wait, including
creating you own custom pull-down/tear-off menus.  Now how much would you
pay?  $395?  $595?  $895?  $1,495?        But if you act after August 15th,
you can have all this free with purchase of any macintosh.  All other macintosh
owners can purchase it at the introductory price of $49.95.  All purchases
bewteen now and eternity come with 3 disks filled with pre-written 'cards'
(stackware), including a notebook, calendar reminder, area-code lookup, and
much much more.



And I'll bet you thought that the reason all those third-party developers
were getting angry at Apple was because of 4th dimension...


Disclaimer:  All comments about pricing, third-party ire, and availability
	     are all based on rumor or conjecture.  The features I described
	     are all features I saw in the prewritten stackware that was
	     running on the machine I saw HyperCard running on, or were
	     things I felt I could fairly easily add to the program (take
	     me 1-4 hours).
--
Peter "Arrgh" Korn
korn@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU
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