One of the greatest pieces of software Apple ever produced is slowly dying because the company can't figure out how to sell it or whom to sell it to. The software is HyperCard, a simple programming ...

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 ...

I remember in high school my friends and I put together a Hypercard program which integrated some TrueBasic graphics programs that did a simple "Orrey" simulation of the solar system, and an actually ...

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Today is the 30th anniversary of the introduction of HyperCard, a system for building interactive media. HyperCard featured database features, form-based layouts, and a programming language called ...

Hypercard would get the occasional patch but it was clear it was dead program walking finally being put out of its misery in 1998 when Jobs came back on board. This brings up the other issue with ...