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On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Mary Bernard wrote:

> Yesterday I found a box at the back of a cupboard with 5 1/2" disks for
> NB2 and 3, and realised that I no any longer remember when the
> various
> versions came out.  I can remember when I got NB1 - in the spring
> of
> 1986, a few months after I got my first computer. But I don't know when it
> first came out. Do any of you long-time NB hands have better memories than
> mine for when it all began, and when the upgrades came out? - It might be
> sort of interesting to get that bit of history straight in this lull
> before we find ourselves all at sea with NB for Windows (soon may the day
> arrive!).
> Mary
> <if10000@cus.cam.ac.uk>

I first purchased Nota Bene version 2.0 in the fall of 1988, just as I
began graduate school (the "lost years" as I sometimes think of them).  I
also joined the list at that time.  I really think the 2.0 boxed manual
with removable pages (therefore upgraded to 3.1) is really the most
elegant one they produced, and it would be neat if they brought it back
for the Windows version.

As for when 4.0/4.1/4.2 "actually came out," I think the whole story might
be too painful, and still too "close", to recount objectively.

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Ted Parkinson
Department of English
McMaster University                           parkinsn@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca
Hamilton, Ontario