Casey Liss asked “What is FileMaker?” on the Accidental Tech Podcast, Episode 700. Since I grew up in the FileMaker era and was immersed in that world, I couldn’t resist answering his question and reminiscing about the old days. The following is what I wrote to Casey [ the guys responded to my ema

⤑ Dear Casey, A Walk Down FileMaker Memory Lane… (via Leon Mika on MB).

I never got warm with it, but I also never did give it as much time as I gave HyperCard which came with more introduction and help (I was a child at the time and could not just buy books). We got the HyperCard book for free. And if I remember correctly the introduction stacks were also a good resource (which came with the tool). So I spent a lot more productive time with HyperCard than Filemarker, but I remember trying to build some libraries with it.

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