deh0654@sjfc.UUCP (Dennis Hamilton) (02/08/88)
In article <195@sjfc.UUCP> deh0654@sjfc.UUCP (Dennis Hamilton), I wrote: >The following refer-format bibliography items are the sh Here is an initial set for February, 1988. The process of slowly picking up retrospective information continues. For consistency in naming, my clipped copy of the earlier material is now known as HYP8801A.BIB, not HYPR8801.BIB. - - - HYP8802A.BIB - - - %A Laurie Flynne %T Apple Readies Program Linking Hypertext, Database Sorting %J InfoWorld %V 9 %N 26 %P 3ff. %D June 29, 1987 %K WildCard HyperCard NoteCards Xerox PARC Apple Bill Atkinson WildTalk %X "CUPERTINO, CA -- A program under development for Apple Computer combines sophisticated database sorting features and hypertext, creating what industry sources describe as an extremely strategic product for the company. "Wild Card, written by Mac Paint creator Bill Atkinson, will be available this year under the name Hyper Card, said industry sources close to the company. "Wild Card uses stacks of cards to store and sort information, in a manner similar to Xerox's Note Cards program, according to sources who have seen beta copies of the program. Note Cards, developed by Xerox PARC, uses the same metaphor of stacks of cards as the format for organizing data. With Wild Card, users can also set up visual links between files. "Described by one source as a multimedia database toolbox, the program contains both sound and graphics. "The software includes a programming language -- still under development -- called Wild Talk, with which users can create their own applications. Sources familiar with the program describe the language as extremely easy to use. "The Help function of the program uses hypertext techniques to allow the user to browse the program's features. Hypertext can be described as a non-linear way of tracing various aspects of a concept or feature, with multiple options at each step. [rest of article deleted] [dh:1988-02-04] %A Tom Stanton %T Hijaak Converts among .PCX, .PIC, and TIFF Graphic Formats %J PC Magazine %V 7 %N 4 %D February 29, 1988 %P 38 %O First Look: Hands On Software Report %K Hijaak Inset .PCS .PIC TIFF .IFF Postscript .TXT .GIF .HPC .MAC .PCX IGES HPGL .DFX gray-scale conversion %X Hijaak, Version 1.0 from Inset Systems, 12 Mill Pond Road, Danbury, CT 06811; (203) 794-0396. Requires PC, one drive, CGA, EGA, or Hercules card and DOS 2.0 or later. $89. With Inset for color-screen capture, $149. "Anyone who needs to integrate a variety of graphics into a single document understands how valuable a utility like *Hijaak* can be." [dh:1988-02-04] %A Donald B. Trivette %T Books in Print on Compact Disk: Easy Title and Review Searches %J PC Magazine %V 7 %N 4 %D February 29, 1988 %P 56 %O First Looks: Hands On Summary %K Bowker Books in Print CD-ROM searching %X Books in Prints Plus from Bowker ELectronic Publishing, 245 West 17th Street, New York, NY 10011; (800) 323-6992, (212) 337-6992. CD-ROM annual subscription, $995; with reviews, $1395. Requires 512k RAM, dual-drive PC with DOS 3.1 and Sony, Philips, or Hitachi CD-ROM drive. "CD-ROM database containing citations, ordering information, and in some cases critical reviews, for books currently in print. Search software is provided to access the database in a variety of ways, and an order-entry system speeds up acquisitions." [dh:1988-02-04] %T The RESIDENT EXPERT System %J Dr. Dobb's Journal %V 13 %N 2 %D #136 February, 1988 %P 29 %O Advertisement %K Pop-Up Reference Guides Cross Referencing Compiler Shell %X Product of Santa Rita Software, 1000 East 14th Street, Suite 365, Plano, TX 75074; (714) 727-9217. RESIDENT EXPERT Shell (required for accessing all guides), including PC-DOS/MS-DOS Reference Guide, $19.95. RESIDENT EXPERT Compiler, $39.95 for building your own reference guide. Reference Guides for Turbo C, Pascal 4.0, and Prolog 1.1, $19.95 each. Guides for other C implementations from $19.95 to $39.95. PC Programmer's Reference Guide ($39.95) documents every PC and AT processor instruction, every BIOS and DOS service interrupt, keyboard codes, line-drawing, ASCII, and IBM character sets, and more. This product provides disk-resident reference guides available through a memory-resident pop-up access system. By placing the cursor over a term, it may be already found in one of the comprehensive databases. If there's not quite a match, a related-topics index may help find a better one. This seems a little like the Turbo Lightning idea, except that Lightning doesn't seem to have gotten anywhere. It will be interesting to see if this works better. [dh:88-02-04]. %A Kent Porter %T The Norton Guides %J Dr. Dobb's Journal %V 13 %N 2 %D #136: February, 1988 %P 116-121 %O Examining Room: Reviews Department %K PC Pop-Up Reference Guides DOS 2.0 Turbo C compiler access %X Peter Norton Computing Inc., 2210 Wilshire Boulevard, Santa Monica CA 90403; (213) 453-2361. $50 for pop-up access program, compiler, and linker. Each guide, $50. Current Guides are BASICA, QuickBASIC, Turbo BASIC, Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, Microsoft C, and MASM. The MASM Guide has extensive internal-interface and codes information. "This opens the way to tremendous possibilities for application developers. Instead of laboriously constructing help screens and all the code required to manage them, you can write a Guides database and bundle it with your software." It would appear that this and RESIDENT EXPERT System are head-to-head competitors. [dh:1988-02-04] %T Seekeasy %J PC-SIG Software Distribution %V 820 %O Advertised by Computer Supply Company, Rochester, NY, 1988-02-05. %X "A *very* easy-to-use, `flexible match' informtaion-retrieval program." $6.00 on MS-DOS disk from PC-SIG and Authorized dealers. [dh:1988-02-06] %A Susan Dillingham %T Corporate America Buried in Paper Glut %J Insight %V 4 %N 7 %D February 15, 1988 %P 41 %O Business Briefing section %K computer copier paper glut %X "... Corporate Americal is burying itself in a $100 billion mound of paperwork -- some 30 billion pages of original documents a year -- according to a recent issue of Personnel Journal. "Computers and copiers are the primary cause of the burgeoning paper glut, author Dianna Booher says in the journal. Today's technology makes it easy to create and distribute multiple copies of even the most trivial documents, she says. ... "Booher, author of the book `Cutting Paperwork in the Corporate Culture,' says businesses can slay the paper dragon by developing simple formats for routine documents so that time and paper are not wasted with rewrites. Another way, she adds, is to make better use of computers' ability to transmit and store information electronically." [dh:1988-02-06] %A (staff) %T HyperCard Audio Training %J Macworld %V 5 %N 2 %D February 1988 %P 8 %O Mac Bulletin product-news department %K HyperCard Training HyperEasy Using %X Personal Training Systems (PTS) of San Jose, California, "now offers HyperEasy, a series of four HyperCard training packages that cover using HyperCard, creating cards and stacks, basic scripting, and advanced scripting -- each of which includes an audiocassette, practice disk, and summary card. The first package (Using HyperCard) lists for $49.95, while the other three tutorials cost $49.95 apiece." [dh:1988-02-06] %A (staff) %T Pocketing Hypercard %J Macworld %V 5 %N 2 %D February 1988 %P 10 %O Mac Bulleting product-news department %K HyperTalk External Commands Softpress MatchPoint %X "HyperTalk and the External Commands, a 65-page publication from Softpress Publishing of Foster City, California, is the first pocket reference to HyperCard's HyperTalk programming language. ... "Another first from Softpress is MatchPoint, a business presentation application using HyperCard. It allows you to compose and rearrange slides, specify the type of fade and its duration, and create charts and graphs while maintaining a hot link to the original data. MatchPoint is expected to be available by March." [dh:1988-02-06] %A (staff) %T Your Best Stacks %J Macworld %V 5 %N 3 %D February 1988 %P 10 %O Mac Bulletin product-news department %K HyperCard Macworld Best Stacks Department %X "Send a disk of your best HyperCard stacks to: News Editor, Macworld, 501 Second St., San Francisco, CA 94107. We'll pay $25 for every entry selected for a new monthly item, `Your Best Stacks.' Please tell us how you developed your stack, describe its features and who would use it, and let us know how readers can obtain more information. We'll also need to know if it's free, shareware, or a commercial product." [dh:1988-02-06] %A Brian A. Bauer %T Ethical Disclosures %J Macworld %V 5 %N 2 %D February 1988 %P 35 %O Letter %K Two Faces of HyperCard review Business Class Danny Goodman %X "... the October 1987 issues also contains an article by Danny Goodman (`The Two Faces of HyperCard') that mentions Goodman's own HyperCard product, Business Class, without disclosing its authorship. ..." [dh:1988-02-06] %T The Promise of HyperCard: Focal Point Delivers %J Macworld %V 5 %N 2 %D February, 1988 %P 39 %O advertisement %K Danny Goodman Bill Atkinson HyperCard Focal Point HyperWare Activision %X "Introducing Focal Point(tm), the Ultimate Organizer. It's got everything you need for managing your time and tasks. ... And Focal Point is completely customizable, so it works the way you do. "Hot Links. HyperCard links the Focal Point tools to each other. So you enter information just once. But you can organize it and use it in thousands of different ways. ... The list of links goes on and on. "By the Guy Who Wrote the Book on Hypercard. Focal Point was created by the man who wrote the book on HyperCard -- Danny Goodman, author of the best-selling Complete HyperCard Handbook. Because Danny worked with Bill Atkinson on the development of HyperCard, he knows it inside out. So Focal Point really shows -- and uses -- the power of HyperCard." $99.95 suggested retail price. HyperWare from Activision. P.O. Box 7287, Mountain View, CA 94039. [dh:1988-02-06] %A (editor) %A Ron Roman %T Macworld Stacks %J Macworld %V 5 %N 2 %D February, 1988 %P 42 %O letter and response %K Macworld Index HyperCard stack %X " ... I thought how great it would be if Macworld were to create a stackware program to make it easier to find articles. ..." "We're putting together a HyperCard stack for our 1987 annual index, which should be online on CompuServe by the time you read this. -- Ed." [dh:1988-02-06] %A Steven Levy %T Meditations on HyperCard %J Macworld %V 5 %N 2 %D February, 1988 %P 71-88 %K HyperCard %X " ... It is no wonder I swooned when I first saw HyperCard." "Sculley and many others here have fallen into a fallacy reflected by the misleading moniker of HyperCard -- that the program signals the arrival of hypermedia, a tonic that will change the world by changing the way we deal with information. ... Some HyperCard mavens chorus with visionary fervor that the program ushers in this strange thing called hypermedia, which links all relevant information so the world's knowledge falls into place as easily as the click of a mouse. I'm more skeptical, and hereby urge that the rhetoric be toned down. ... "At its simplest, and also at its best, HyperCard manages information. The program's superiority ... is its recognition that information has more value if it can be manipulated into a larger universe than that of a single program. ... "... You do not have to plunge into programming HyperTalk to benefit from HyperCard. Since it is so easy to program, somebody else will do it for you." "... In the coming age of hypermedia, the visionaries say, ... information will be pumped into your home or office by an umbilical cord connecting you to some sort of giant World Brain. "There is a long line of adherents to this vision, beginning in 1945 with Vannevar Bush and continuing through Ted Nelson, who coined the word hypermedia. There has even been a Macintosh outpost in the field: Alan Boyd, the publisher of the Guide hypertext system. In his book `Oddysey,' Apple chairman Sculley has picked up the torch. He calls his contribution Knowledge Navigator, an intriguing, intelligent tool that will enable us to race through civilization's accumulated knowledge like supersonic pilots blasting through the stratosphere. ... In the hypermedia world, nonfiction books would not be read from front to back, but would be blended into some World Information Bank, each passage linked in millions of ways to other relevant information. ... "This strikes me as an unlikely scenario, at least on the scale that some commentators have predicted. ..." [dh:1988-02-06] %T 100 HyperCard Stacks: $25.00 %J Macworld %V 5 %N 2 %D February, 1988 %P 317 %O advertisement %K Budgetbytes HyperCard public-domain shareware stacks %X "Here's 100 ready to run Public Domain and Shareware HyperCard stacks for your Macintosh. Included are stacks for business, productivity, home & personal, utilities, sounds, education, and entertainment. Most are unprotected so that you can gain ideas for creating your own exciting stacks! ... available on 4 DS disks for only $25.00." Budgetbytes(tm), 2231 SW Wanamaker Road, Suite 102, P.O. Box 2248, Topeka, KS 66601. "Please remember to support Shareware!" [dh:1988-02-06] %T HyperFacts %J Macworld %V 5 %N 2 %D February, 1988 %P 333 %O advertisement %K HyperFacts Jokes on File MacVendors Casablanca Software %X Free catalog. Casablanca Software, P.O. Box 214, Dept. MWB12, Hicksville, OH 43526; (419) 542-8145. HyperFacts products are $19.95 each, plus $2 s/h. [dh:1988-02-06] %T MacRecorder %J Macworld %V 5 %N 2 %D February, 1988 %P 333 %O advertisement %K MacRecorder HyperSound HyperCard AudioFile %X "HyperSound stackware lets you record & work w/sound from within HyperCard. AudioFile(tm) software records sound, then lets you edit & save files in a variety of formats including HyperCard, StudioSession(tm), & BeepINITs." Farallon Computing, 2150 Kittredge Street, Berkeley CA 94704; (415) 849-2331. [dh:1988-02-06] %T HyperBook Maker %J Macworld %V 5 %N 2 %D February, 1988 %P 334 %O advertisement %K HyperCard HyperBook Ideaform %X "Create books from HyperCard stacks. HyperBook Maker automatically lays out your pages so they fold to make a flip-top book. Lets you print on both sides. You just fold once and staple. Works for full, half- or quarter-size cards; all or part of a stack. Also prints both sides of page for notebook formats. HyperBook Maker: $59.95 postpaid." Ideaform Inc., P.O. Box 1540, 612 West Kirkwood, Fairfield, IA 52556' (515) 472-7256. [dh:1988-02-06] %T Typeface Book and Stack %J Macworld %V 5 %N 2 %D February, 1988 %P 334 %O advertisement %K DT Publishing Postscript fonts HyperCard Stack %X "Virtually every PostScript font (all vendors), beautifully displayed & documented. For each type family, stack shows all styles, alphabets, character sets. Book adds sample usages & more. History & mood, usage hints, tech data & vendor/pricing info! `The Typefaces of DT Publishing' 800-HyperCard stack $24.95, 300+ page paperback $29.95, Book & Stack Combo $39.95." Publishing Resources Inc., Boulder, CO; (303) 442-1100. [dh:1988-02-06] %T Computer-Based Training %J Macworld %V 5 %N 2 %D February, 1988 %P 334 %O advertisement %K HyperCard CBT Computer-Based Training %X "Tap HyperCard's power in interactive Computer-Based Training (CBT) development. Two discs of stacks with ideas, routines, & training applications. Includes 60-page manual on using Hypercard for interactive CBT." $135. First Reference, Inc., 516 Fifth Avenue #706, New York, NY 10036; (212) 730-8211 [dh:1988-02-06] %T HyperSource %J Macworld %V 5 %N 2 %D February, 1988 %P 334 %O advertisement %K Hyper Business Tools HyperTalk Scripting %X "Hyper Talk Scripting Reference Guide -- The only reference needed $9.95." HyperSource(tm), 2619 South 302nd Street, Federal Way, WA 98003; (206) 946-2011. [dh:1988-02-06] %A (staff) %T Flash-Up Note-Maker Program Bundled With Microsoft Mouse %J InfoWorld %V 10 %N 5 %D February 1, 1988 %P 19 %O News Briefs announcements %K Software Bottling Company Flash-Up Windows Notes %X "Software Bottling Co. is bundling a Microsoft Mouse with its Flash-Up RAM-resident macro, menu, and notemaker when bought through the Programmer's Connection, an Ohio mail-order firm. "The $89 Flash-Up ... lets users attach electronic notes to nearly any application file." [dh:1988-02-06] %A (staff) %T Text-Retrieval Program Collects, Sorts Data From Application Files %J InfoWorld %V 10 %N 5 %D February 1, 1988 %P 19 %O News Briefs announcements %K Text Collector %X "A text-retrieval program that allows users to search, sort, and collect data from word processors, databases, or other text-oriented files has been released by O'Neill Software. "The $69 Text Collector collects and arranges retrieved blocks by file name, priority, sequence number, date, or other classification, according to the company." [dh:1988-02-06] %A Julie Webber %T Tool Searches Files Across Networks, Programs %J InfoWorld %V 10 %N 5 %D February 1, 1988 %P 17 %O Software news %K LatiCorp Context DOS Xenix %X "A tool for searching electronic text within departmental networks was recently announced by Laticorp Inc." "Context can search ASCII files, C source files, and formatted documents created with word processors ... . Based on inverted indexing, the searches can use proximity, limiting and ranging operators, and a thesaurus. ... "Laticorp said that each Context collection can support up to 2 billion documents. The program can also search from one to three collections simultaneously. "Both DOS and Xenix versions of the Context collection are available now and cost $495 and $995. ..." [dh:1988-02-06] %A Stephen Manes %T Son of Fritter: Time Wasting Marches On %J PC Magazine %V 7 %N 4 %D February 29, 1988 %P 85-86 %O Viewpoint Article %K Fritter Fritterware Hypercard CD-ROM Databases %X "... It's the gala second anniversary of `fritter' -- time fruitlessly wasted in the attempt to make computer hardware and software do what they're supposed to. ... "Until lately most fritter seemed incidental to the product. Now my esteemed colleague Ed Mendelson has revealed an important fritter development. Mendelson recently discovered the existence of what shall henceforth be known as `fritterware': software *deliberately* *intended* to help you waste time. "Don't confuse fritterware with entertainment software, which generally has some sort of recreational purpose. Fritterware encourages mindless dissipation without any payoff whatsoever -- except, of course, the avoidance of productive work. "Obsessive data manipulation is crucial to fritterware, so most software has fritterware elements. Spreadsheets, for example ... . "Databases are double-whammy fritterware. Since data entry is incredibly time-consuming, users can while away data at a time logging information. Then they can beguile the hours fiddling with the facts. Professor Mendelson reports that academics are particularly fond of spending weeks entering notes and then dissipating months examining them with text-retrieval software, which often adds the fritter lagniappe of delays for indexing. Fritterware thus helps the pedant postpone almost indefinitely the onerous chore of dissertation writing. "However, pure fritterware is a more recent development. The earliest form generally cited in fritter literature is `thought-processing' software. Spend hours entering your outline. Tinker for days, collapsing and expanding it. Fritter, pure and elegant. ... "Apple has its own new fritterware contribution. Hypercard lets you click and monkey around with screen-sized snippets of information. A complete programming language helps fritter countless hours in pursuit of perfect `stackware.' Is this cool or what? "Other exciting developments include CD-ROM fritterware ... and OS/2. ..." [dh:1988-02-06] %A Micro Logic Corp. %T Tornado -- the RANDOM information procesor %J PC Magazine %V 7 %N 4 %D February 29, 1988 %P 329 %O advertisement %K Productivity random information windows piles free-form anonymous %X Micro Logic Corp., Dept. T81, 100 2nd Street, P. O. Box 174, Hackensack, NJ 07602; (201) 342-6518; modem (201) 342-8101. $99.95, or $149.95 including Tornado Library (free-form calendar, project planner, grid maker, city/state/area-code/time-zone translator, etc.). IBM PC/XT/AT/PS2 and compatibles; monochrome, CGA, 80col EGA, and Hercules displays, 60K minimum RAM and TSR option. Up to 500 windows in each of 50 piles, scrolling within window, import & export to files & screens, cut & paste, auto word wrap, time & date stamp, move & join & dup windows, context help, parallel text processing, progressive resolution and "and-or-not"-like searching without keywords. "To start a new window you just press N, and enter information. No file names. No extra keystrokes. To retrieve information you just press G (for Get), with any word or phrase ..." [dh:88-02-07] %A Tom Badgett %T Where Is It? Searching through files with database software. %J PC Magazine %D October 27, 1987 %P 175-190 %O Review of Text Search software %K text databases searching Dragnet SearchExpress Tracker AskSAM ZyIndex reviews %X "Is finding that one piece of essential data among your text files giving you `needle-in-a-haystack' syndrome? These five text search-and-retrieval programs and free-form databases can help, and we'll rate them for speed and efficiency. [synopsis] "These programs fall into two categories: free-form text databases and full-text search-and-retrieval programs." AskSAM and Tracker are free-form text databases. Dragnet, SearchExpress, and ZyIndex are full-text search-and-retrieval programs. Good review. The editor's choice is the $200 AskSAM, even though it does not use pre-built indexes (it loads from the original files and sets up its search machinery on the fly) and the maximum record/paragraph is only 1600 bytes. The choice seems to be because AskSAM (version 3.03) uses ASCII files and supports full-text search and retrieval as well as fielded record structures. The program has a good editor and exceptional flexibility, according to the reviewers. [dh:1988-02-07] %A Theodor H. Nelson %T Computer Lib / Dream Machines %V 2 %I Tempus Books of Microsoft Press %C Redmond, WA %D 1974, 1987 %Z ISBN 0-914845-49-7 %O $18.95 list %K Xanadu Hypertext %X "Note that the author's original copyright also applies to certain interactive designs as presented here, under both statutory copyright law and such judicial interpretations as the current look-and-feel doctrine." [That is, if you intend to independently develop a Hypertext system, it would be wise to be able to demonstrate that you've never seen this book! dh:88-02-07] "This book is also available on-line on the experimental Xanadu Hypertext network. Contact Project Xanadu, 8480 Fredericksburg, Suite 138, San Antonio, TX 78229, for details." "I write to be read aloud, which confuses editors; the punctuation and capitalization are a guide to the intonation of the reader. [Computer Lib, p.1]" "This side of the book, Computer Lib proper (whose title is nevertheless the simplest way to refer to both halves), is an attempt to explain simply and concisely why computers are marvelous and wonderful, and what some main things are in the field. "The second half of the book, Dream Machines, is specifically about fantasy and imagination, and new techniques for it. That half is related to this half, but can be read first ... [Computer Lib, p.3]." "Dream machines was an advertisement for my own services as a software designer, with free samples. And it was an invitation for smart and idealistic souls to join me in a great and brave undertaking, project Xanadu. [Computer Lib, p.7]" On Xanadu 80: "Computer Lib was a disappointment in many ways. ... But astonishingly, it succeeded in one of its most important purposes. At the end of the book, which was hidden in the middle, was an implied invitation to appropriately clever people to come join the Xanadu project. And, of all things, they did. The system was redesigned by a new and remarkable group in 1979 and 1980; the current system embodies that new structure. (See [Dream Machines, p. 141].)" I hesitate to suggest that it is possible to factor out just the Hypertext discussion from this in-print existence proof that "Everything is Interwingled. [blown-in post-card and elsewhere]" Nevertheless, there is discussion of Hypertext on Dream Machines pp. 29-45, including original definitions for Xanadu. Hypermedia are introduced on Dream Machines (DM) pp.64-73. The treatment of Computer-Assisted Instruction on DM pp. 129-137 is followed by an updated, 1987, technical description of Project Xanadu [DM pp. 141-153]. There are useful bibliographic references throughout the material. 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