Apple's original software construction kit: HyperCard turns twenty-five years old today

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By Kelly GuimontAug 11, 2012, 3:30 pm296 pts
Twenty-five years ago today, HyperCard was released at Macworld Expo Boston. Apple's software construction kit for the rest of us began shipping on every new Mac as of August 11, 1987; you could also buy it for $49. It required 1 MB of memory (yes, one megabyte) and a pair of 800K floppy drives, or one floppy…

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