Rob,

I had them on my b/w NeXT box, but not able to boot it for the last 2-3 years 
:-(

You might have luck to find the docs on an old 1990 NeXT box, or on a SUN/ 
Sparc 1 (education configuration).

Boy, I thought I am the last person on earth to remember ICpak …

Georg

> On 26 Apr 2017, at 02:07, Rob King <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
>    Long ago, in the early days of Objective-C, Stepstone (previously PPI), 
> released "ICpaks". These were class libraries for Objective-C.
> 
>    ICpak 101 was a library of collection classes, and ICpak 201 was a GUI 
> framework. ICpak 201 was submitted for consideration as the "standard" GUI 
> toolkit by OSF, ultimately losing to Motif.
> 
>    Anyway, I was wondering if anyone had documentation for these libraries? I 
> know they wouldn't be of much use today, since I doubt anyone still has 
> copies of the software, but I'm curious to see how they were to work with.
> 
>    I read Brad Cox's *Object-Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach", 
> which touched on these libraries, but it wasn't actual documentation for them.
> 
>    (It's an excellent book, by the way.)
> 
>    Anyway, thanks everyone for reading this and helping me get my 
> retrocomputing fix.
> 
>    Rob
> 
> 
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