Library Workstation Report

Schuyler, Michael

1990 Library Workstation Report

doi: 10.1108/eb027425

Microsoft Windows 3.0 has finally arrived. It was, by all accounts, a difficult birth, accompanied by klieg lights and hoopla stretching years into the past. In many respects, Windows 3.0 was very much like dBASE IV. Both Windows and dBASE IV shipped early versions that didn't work well. Both were embroiled in controversy and promised more than they could offer. They endured a prolonged period of vaporware status and were from leading companies.

Valauskas, Edward

1990 Library Workstation Report

doi: 10.1108/eb027426

A little over three years ago, Apple introduced a new kind of software called HyperCard. Then, as now, this program defies definition. The users of HyperCard essentially fix the boundaries of the program, making it a database, a graphics catalog, an audio resource, a book, or some combination of all of these categories. Apple, in its latest manuals for the program, calls HyperCard an information toolkit, and in its most creative applications, the program truly lives up to this billing.