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A long time ago, 1995 or 1996, I fooled around with software that was written by one of Engelbart's team. It promised to augment the person running the program
by bdunbar 13y ago
A long time ago, 1995 or 1996, I fooled around with software that was written by one of Engelbart's team.
It promised to augment the person running the program, to do for their brain what word-processing did for text.
It was darn nifty, but a bit beyond me at the time. Couldn't get my boss interested, and I moved on.
Does anyone have a clue what that could have been called?
Edit: HyPerform, by N. Dean Meyer. I never thought I could google that, today of all days.
- endlessvoid94 13y agoI just read whatever I could about this, but do you have any further information? I'm fascinated.
- bdunbar 13y agoAll I've got is what I wrote, and what's on NDMA's site about it. I wish I'd kept that floppy. It was a full working copy, and the printed instruction manual. I have no idea how I acquired it, at this late date. Perhaps it was sitting around in the server 'room' where I was working: lots of engineers there (including my boss) and it seems like the kind of thing he'd have been interested in.
- endlessvoid94 13y agoIt sounds very interesting. I just emailed NDMA to see if I can somehow acquire a copy. I'd be more than happy to pay for it. Big ideas definitely take time to catch on.
- DanBC 13y agoMay I ask what search terms you used? I tentatively thought it was "TheBrain", but that's a bit later, and I was working out if there's any link between Harlan Hugh and Engelbart.
- bdunbar 13y ago'engelbart inspired augment software' without quotes. Which led me to the wiki page for NLS which contains the line ... "The HyPerform program sold by NDMA Inc. is a descendant of NLS and Augment." Which made my brain go 'that's it' and google confirmed it.
- DennisP 13y agoLooks like it's still available, on Windows for $149: http://ndma.com/resources/ndm8543.htm http://ndma.com/resources/ndm8543.htm