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==Reception== "Hypercard Steals Show At Macworld Exposition", ''[[InfoWorld]]'' reported in August 1987. The magazine said that Apple expected to put the "unusual" software in Macs' [[ROM]], and that third-party developers would create most stackware.<ref name="flynn19870817">{{Cite magazine |last=Flynn |first=Laurie |date=1987-08-17 |title=Hypercard Steals Show At Macworld Exposition |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2jsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=true |access-date=2025-05-25 |magazine=InfoWorld |page=1 |volume=9 |issue=33}}</ref> Besides Activision and Goodman, [[Dialog (online database)|Dialog]] and the [[Whole Earth Catalog]] announced stackware at the show, while [[Dan Bricklin]] said HyperCard "seems to be the best" hypertext software so far.<ref name="warner19870817">{{Cite magazine |last=Warner |first=Edward |date=1987-08-17 |title=Stackware Integrates Databases |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2jsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q&f=true |access-date=2025-05-25 |magazine=InfoWorld |page=85 |volume=9 |issue=33}}</ref> The magazine's Michael J. Miller said "Hypercard is unlike anything else I've seen". While predicting that many would find it useful just for the built-in applications, he concluded that "Hypercard seems so deep and so powerful that I'm sure I haven't discovered everything it's capable of. Yet it's surprisingly simple to use ... It's a unique program at an unbelievable price".<ref name="miller19870817">{{Cite magazine |last=Miller |first=Michael J. |date=1987-08-17 |title=Hypercard Gives Mac Users Superb Control Over Databases, Applications |department=First Look |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2jsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA43#v=onepage&q&f=true |access-date=2025-05-25 |magazine=InfoWorld |page=43 |volume=9 |issue=33}}</ref> Within one week, an estimated 10,000 copies had been distributed; 35,000 copies within one month. Goodman's on HyperCard manual, released at the same time as the software, became the best-selling Macintosh book in history.{{r|macuser1188}} ''Compute!'s Apple Applications'' in 1987 stated that HyperCard "may make Macintosh the personal computer of choice". While noting that its large memory requirement made it best suited for computers with 2 MB of memory and hard drives, the magazine predicted that "the smallest programming shop should be able to turn out stackware", especially for using CD-ROMs.<ref name="caa198712">{{cite news |url=https://archive.org/stream/COMPUTEs_Apple_Applications_Vol._5_No._2_Issue_6_1987-12_COMPUTE_Publications_US#page/n9/mode/2up |title=Information On A Card |work=Compute!'s Apple Applications |date=December 1987 |access-date=18 August 2014 |pages=6}}</ref> ''Compute!'' predicted in 1988 that most future Mac software would be developed using HyperCard, if only because using it was so addictive that developers "won't be able to tear themselves away from it long enough to create anything else".<ref name="leemon198804">{{cite news |url=http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue95/049_1_MICROSCOPE_THE_HAZARDS_OF_HYPERCARD.php |title=The Hazards of HyperCard |work=Compute! |date=April 1988 |access-date=18 August 2014 |author=Leemon, Sheldon |pages=49}}</ref> ''[[Byte (magazine)|Byte]]'' in 1989 listed it as among the "Excellence" winners of the Byte Awards. While stating that "like any first entry, it has some flaws", the magazine wrote that "HyperCard opened up a new category of software", and praised Apple for bundling it with every Mac.<ref name="byte198901">{{Cite magazine |date=January 1989 |title=The Byte Awards |url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1989-01/1989_01_BYTE_14-01_PC_Communications_and_Annual_Awards_and_Digitizing_Tablets/page/n371/mode/2up |magazine=[[Byte (magazine)|Byte]]| volume=14 |issue=1 |page=327}}</ref> In 2001 [[Steve Wozniak]] called HyperCard "the best program ever written".<ref name="macworld20010622">{{cite news |url=http://www.macworld.com/article/1018126/woz.html |title=Wozniak's fireside chat |work=Macworld |date=2001-06-22 |access-date=16 February 2015}}</ref>
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