> My first wife, Carol Nasby Kaehler, died in 1991 of diabetes. She
> had the priviledge of being on the Macintosh team, and she wrote the
> original Macintosh Owners Guide. It's the thin little book that
> floats down beside a Mac in contrast to three heavy IBM PC manuals
> in an early TV commercial. Carol built the beautiful HyperCard Help
> System, that was included in [version 1.0 of HyperCard][1]. You can
> download the original Help System converted for use in [HyperCard
> 2.1][2] or [HyperCard 2.3][3]. She also wrote [HyperCard Power
> (Addison-Wesley, 1988, out of print)][4].
>
> [...]
>
> I was chief advisor to author Bill Atkinson during his creation of
> HyperCard at Apple. The card above is from the Help System, authored
> by my first wife, Carol. The Help System was the most complex
> application written in HyperCard during development, and it drove
> many design decisions. HyperCard is a very flexible system, allowing
> a wide range of people to create their own applications. It was the
> first of a category of end user programmable systems, such as Visual
> Basic.
>
> In the Fall of 1985, the protype of Hypercard, called WildCard, held
> all of its stacks in a single large file. Work on the Help System
> told us that a stack needed to have more than one background (kind
> of card) in it. Bill Atkinson estimated that adding multiple
> backgrounds would take six months, and was really dreading doing it.
> One day I realized that if Bill simply called each 'stack' in the
> big file a 'background', and added some simple code to load a new
> file when changing stacks, he would have multiple backgrounds.
> During an outdoor birthday party, I drew pictures on a napkin to
> explain my proposal. Bill got very excited, and two days later
> multiple backgrounds were working.
>
> \- excerpt adapted from [Ted Kaehler's personal website][5]

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

Requires HyperCard 2.1 or later. This stack is already included with
the retail set of disks for HyperCard 1.x.

  [1]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/hypercard-110
  [2]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/hypercard-21
  [3]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/hypercard-23-addmotion-ii
  [4]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/hypercard-power-techniques-and-scripts
  [5]: http://tedkaehler.weather-dimensions.com/us/ted/