Re: What is this 'hypercard' thing anyway?

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From: [email protected] (Robert Joseph Hammen)
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Subject: Re: What is this 'hypercard' thing anyway?
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Date: Tue, 8-Dec-87 17:30:13 EST
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In article [email protected] (Steven Grady) writes:
>>>Is it true Apple is giving the thing away? Can I get a copy for
>>>myself easily? How?
>>
>>You get it free if you buy a Mac. you get it for $49 if you already own one.
>
>Last I heard (in a videotape of a conference by one of the author's),
>it is unprotected, and giving away copies is encouraged.

What you may be referring to is a comment made by Bill Atkinson at a "User
Group Breakfast" session at MacWorld/Boston. Someone who was a BBS sysop was
complaining that everyone had to have a copy of HyperCard to use stacks, and
urged Atkinson to produce a run-time version. Atkinson replied "Well, if the
$49 is really a problem, HyperCard is not copy-protected." It was interesting
to see the faces of some of the Apple people there turn red...

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