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Bill Atkinson is the programming genius behind HyperCard, MacPaint and much of the original Macintosh operating system, but these days he's wistful about what could have been. Like, for example, the ...
The assembly nature of Hypercard as well Apple handing it off to Claris is what hurt it in the long run. Claris tried to make money off of Hypercard but since all that was need to make the free ...
Almost by necessity, Apple grew out of the homebrew movement, in which enthusiasts swapped knowledge and parts for building computers, and were as much tinkerers and electrical engineers as they were ...
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No one knew what to do with HyperCard. As best as anyone could figure, the software, created in 1985 by Apple engineer Bill Atkinson, was a kind of virtual Rolodex. You could jump between one virtual ...
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