Hey Phil, Boy, does this bring back memories. I had Butler and Webstar running on Mac 8500's way back then. I also used the HyperCard stack. I also bought the first Tango and used the Butler SQL with it. It worked well but was way to slow. I had a db with 45,000 records of books related to automobiles that were being offered on the web. The queries were fairly complicated where the user could search by isbn, author, make and models of cars, manuals, informational books, etc., or a combination of all of these. In some searches, you would hit go and go get a cup of coffee and come back to see if there were any results yet. Some of the searches took up to 10 minutes. Really chunked up those 120 mhz machines. (might have been 80 mgz, I don't remember). Multiple users would bring it to its knees. Ah... the good 'ol days.
-----Original message----- From: Phil Wade [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 19:08:43 -0500 To: witango-talk@witango.com Subject: Witango-Talk: A long time ago in a country far far away ... > 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... > ----- > 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! > ----- > > 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). > > ----- > 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. > ----- > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
