Re: Witango-Talk: A long time ago in a country far far away ...

[Steve Smith]

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 Email:� [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:� � http://www.oakbridge.ca 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... ----- 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