Back to the Future with Hypercard

[Jeff Reynolds]

Richard,

thanks sooo much, wonderful piece! takes me back to grad school in  
molecular biology at berkeley when one of the post docs bought a mac  
on one of her grants. luckily she had no idea of what to do with it  
besides writing papers, i, on the other hand, devoured the thing! i  
had had played with apple IIs and z80s (had one of the first sinclair  
Z80s and Basis 108s), but being partially dyslexic, c and pascal were  
painful for me and basic rather limiting (but did push it pretty  
far). hypertalk was bearable in finding errors in code for me and  
catapulted me into multimedia education after grad school (after  
decided i didn't want to be a professor the rest of my life). had  
great fun for the next decade using hypercard creating training and  
data base system for whale research, museum exhibits and educational  
multimedia cdroms! luckily when hc was fading mc (just at the right  
time, thanks scott!) came along and here we all are! sure many others  
on the list followed very similar paths in life!

Also fondly remember the Computer Chronicles! Glad to find this archive!

cheers,

jeff reynolds





On Dec 25, 2007, at 1:00 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com  
wrote:

> Brett Sher came across this video of a Computer
> Chronicles show about
> HyperCard (c. 1987). Bill Atkinson, Dan Winkler, Danny
> Goodman and
> others explain what HyperCard is, in a show sure to
> raise lots of
> nostalgia.
>
> http://www.archive.org/details/CC501_hypercard