more clones of the hypercard...

[Richard Gaskin]

Stephen Barncard wrote:
> "The last sixteen bytes of every HyperCard 2.x 
> stack are the Pascal string "Nu är det slut Š" 
> (Now it is over Š in Swedish) though this is 
> never seen by users. This was probably a 
> reference to the 1970s Swedish children's TV show 
> Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter ("Five ants 
> are more than four elephants") where each episode 
> ended with a pink animated cartoon elephant 
> saying these words."

More interesting trivia:  Back when Rev was MetaCard, MetaCard Corp. 
contracted the creation of a tutorial from the folks who would later 
become RunRev Ltd.  In that tutorial a pink elephant appears throughout....

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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