by one Bill Atkinson. Bill called it “Wild Card”; it would soon hit the market as “HyperCard” — the lauded New Thing in personal computers that year. Not apparent at first was that HyperCard could be a splendid front end and authoring system for the vast reaches of data storable in CD–ROMs, but that was Apple’s plot all along, and we were becoming part of it. With money and the loan of people such as Tim Oren from Apple, parts of The Essential Whole Earth Catalog were rendered into ROM and demoed to the public with the announcement of Apple’s CD–ROM machine.
At this point Doug Carlston bought in. Doug had been on Point’s Board of Directors for years, and he had been considering how to get his software company, Brøderbund, into the CD–ROM business. With luck, The Electronic Whole Earth Catalog might be the first in
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ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES