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ThinkTank 2.41NP, 9/25/87
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Note: This message is from the outliners.com archive kindly provided by Dave Winer.
Outliners.com Message ID: 1130
Posted by dave
2001-07-30 10:25:37
ThinkTank 2.41NP was released on September 25, 1987
It’s character-based! It has a command interface patterned after Lotus 1-2-3, except the commands are at the bottom of the screen.
The download also includes the OS/2 version. (ThinkTank was one of the first apps to be released for OS/2.) This release came after Ready! and after the company had switched over to Macintoshes. It was the last release of our PC product line, championed by Bob Bierman, who is now at UserLand. Bierman was persistent!
The first release of ThinkTank for the PC (1984) was a straight port from the Apple II version, with the help of Peter Norton’s Inside the IBM PC.
Earlier versions of ThinkTank on the PC were copy-protected.
Random notes
It remembers the last file you had opened, and reopens it the next time it launches.
It makes sound! There’s a routine that clicks the speaker, every time the software checks for the Escape key. Originally I put this in as a way to be sure that it was checking often enough, during lengthy operations. I left the sounds in, people thought ThinkTank had a motor! In fact we explained them by calling them the “motor sounds”.
As you use it, be sure to have the reference card handy.
Here’s a scan of the back of the box.
And the front of the box.
Please read this carefully before you download any software from this website.
You may not call Symantec for support or information about these programs. There is absolutely no support available for this software.
At any time Symantec can tell us to discontinue distributing the software thru this website. That makes the red text even more important. They are being very generous. If you call them and ask for support or complain about upgrades, or tell them they have done something bad, they can and should discontinue this. So please don’t be selfish and spoil it for everyone else.
The same goes for UserLand, and me personally. Only notes of gratitude or memories about the good old days will be accepted. Thanks for listening.
thinkTank2Pc.zip (181K)