Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!uwmcsd1!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!hammen From: hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Robert Joseph Hammen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: What is this 'hypercard' thing anyway? Message-ID: <3826@uwmcsd1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Dec-87 17:30:13 EST Article-I.D.: uwmcsd1.3826 Posted: Tue Dec 8 17:30:13 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Dec-87 14:42:40 EST References: <3834@bellcore.bellcore.com> <35045@sun.uucp> <5204@zen.berkeley.edu> Sender: daemon@uwmcsd1.UUCP Reply-To: hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu.UUCP (Robert Hammen) Distribution: na Organization: Computer Applications, Inc. Lines: 19 In article <5204@zen.berkeley.edu> grady@postgres.berkeley.edu (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 $49 is really a problem, HyperCard is not copy-protected." It was interesting to see the faces of some of the Apple people there turn red... ========================================================================= Robert Hammen Computer Applications, Inc. hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu Delphi: HAMMEN GEnie: R.Hammen CI$: 70701,2104