What was the original file extension? I got involved when Illinois
State University bought a number of 2.0 seats in a package deal. We
ran it on a NT box with Access.
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*From:* David Shelley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*Sent:* Wednesday, June 01, 2005 9:15 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* RE: Witango-Talk: A long time ago in a country far far
away ...
I can remember seeing Dan McKenzie and Rudy Wolfs demonstrate a
pre-release version at Dan’s cottage. They sure were excited
about it! Less than a year later I was working with them too.
Sure seems like a long time ago.
Dave Shelley
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*From:* Steve Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*Sent:* Wednesday, June 01, 2005 11:09 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: Witango-Talk: A long time ago in a country far far
away ...
I missed that by a few months, having joined EveryWare later in
1995 (November) when I became the first 'official' support person
for Tango. However I do remember meeting Mark and Greg Hemstreet
at a Toronto Mac Users Group meeting when they did a demo of
either a late ButlerLink/Web or an early Tango. I had been
playing around with Butler and the FirstClass connectivity that
had been available a year or two earlier. It's only problem was
that we could search Butler from FirstClass, we could create new
records from FirstClass, but we couldn't modify records from
FirstClass and they never did get that working. Tango came along
and it wasn't really needed as much.
Brings back a lot of great memories, including shrinkwrapping the
original release of Tango for FileMaker. I do have a set of
floppies around someplace with the Butler install that came with
Tango 1.0.
Steve Smith
Oakbridge Information Solutions
Office: (519) 624-4388
Fax: (519) 624-3353
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On May 31, 2005, at 8:08 PM, Phil Wade wrote:
EveryWare Development Corp, June 1995: ButlerLink/Web 1.0.2 was
released as part of the Butler DB suite. It appeared in the Butler
suite of tools a few months earlier but we have no record of the
official release of 1.0.0. The earliest record of ButlerLink we know
of was a demonstration of it at the first WebEdge in Austin on April
2-4, 1995 by Henry Lach and Mark Wickens. It was billed as the "most
accessible database" as you could access it with newtons,
WebStar, and
XCMDs (HyperCard). Butlerlink/Web was an access tool that provided
very simple input, searching, and output modules. The review from
WebEdge was "The demos worked as advertised, but once created, files
made with the Butlerlink/Web can only be edited by text editors
and not
the Butlerlink/Web itself".
It was one of the first commercial web/database connectivity
suite for
the internet.
Here is the marketing hype from back then...
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ButlerLink Web 1.02 - ButlerLink/Web is a powerful, yet easy-to-use
tool for allowing your WebSTAR server's users to access Butler SQL
databases. With ButlerLink/Web you can create pages that let users
search, modify, add, and delete database records. The two main
parts of
ButlerLink/Web are the Form Maker and the CGI. The Form Maker is used
to create the database access pages. The CGI interprets these
pages and
the Web user's criteria, queries the Butler SQL server, and returns
formatted results. You don't need to write or know any SQL or HTML.
ButlerLink/Web does it all for you. It's never been so easy to put
databases at the fingertips of 35 million internet users!
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And finally this is a message that accompanied the official
announcement of
ButlerLink/Web 1.0.2 10 years ago (we are not sure of the exact
date in
June).
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EveryWare Development Corp.
Please Note: Until early July we are running one 28k modem for
our Web
site.
Please be patient when accessing our pages! ButlerLink/Web 1.0.2 has
been officially released! All you need is Butler SQL, along with a
WebSTAR Web server from StarNine Technologies Inc. , and you'll be in
Web database heaven.
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