All I've got is what I wrote, and what's on NDMA's site about it.
I wish I'd kept that floppy. It was a full working copy, and the printed instruction manual. I have no idea how I acquired it, at this late date.
Perhaps it was sitting around in the server 'room' where I was working: lots of engineers there (including my boss) and it seems like the kind of thing he'd have been interested in.
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A long time ago, 1995 or 1996, I fooled around with software that was written by one of Engelbart's team.
It promised to augment the person running the program, to do for their brain what word-processing did for text.
It was darn nifty, but a bit beyond me at the time. Couldn't get my boss interested, and I moved on.
Does anyone have a clue what that could have been called?
Edit: HyPerform, by N. Dean Meyer. I never thought I could google that, today of all days.
I just read whatever I could about this, but do you have any further information? I'm fascinated.
All I've got is what I wrote, and what's on NDMA's site about it.
I wish I'd kept that floppy. It was a full working copy, and the printed instruction manual. I have no idea how I acquired it, at this late date.
Perhaps it was sitting around in the server 'room' where I was working: lots of engineers there (including my boss) and it seems like the kind of thing he'd have been interested in.
It sounds very interesting. I just emailed NDMA to see if I can somehow acquire a copy. I'd be more than happy to pay for it.
Big ideas definitely take time to catch on.
May I ask what search terms you used?
I tentatively thought it was "TheBrain", but that's a bit later, and I was working out if there's any link between Harlan Hugh and Engelbart.
'engelbart inspired augment software' without quotes.
Which led me to the wiki page for NLS which contains the line ...
"The HyPerform program sold by NDMA Inc. is a descendant of NLS and Augment."
Which made my brain go 'that's it' and google confirmed it.
Looks like it's still available, on Windows for $149: http://ndma.com/resources/ndm8543.htm