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From: sho@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP
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Subject: Hypercard
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Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 05:05:03 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 31 05:05:03 1987
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Could you imagine a CD-ROM disk similar to Microsoft's Bookshelf which
stored information as hypercard stacks?  You could have a dictionary
from which you could cross-reference to a thesaurus.  Books like the
Chicago Manual of Style could be done in a big information tree like
the Hypercard help.  Other references like the rumored atlas stack
could also be included.  You could have an Encyclopedia complete with
pictures.  It seems to me the only problems which would arise would
come in interfacing these stacks to other programs.  I have no idea
what the internal representation of Hypercard stacks is, so I don't
know how difficult it would be to modify spelling checkers to look up
their words in Hypercard stacks, etc.  The possibilities are scary.

Also, could you imagine these works on a color version of Hypercard?
It's not the flasiness of color that I am drooling over, but the added
clarity one can achieve in digitized pictures by using more grey
scales or shades of color.  

On a side note, what kind of stacks are people working on?  I myself
chose a rather boring idea for a first stack.  I wrote a simple thing
to keep track of my records and CD's.  Haven't thought of what do
next, though.  I'm rather interested in how diverse people's stacks
will be.  After all, the power, diversity, and sheer number of stacks
floating around is what will eventually determine the usefulness of
Hypercard.

						-Sho