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Ask HN: Does anyone remember this 90s-era library catalogue search tool?

7 点作者 _zzaw将近 2 年前
There&#x27;s a library catalog search tool I&#x27;ve been trying and trying to locate for some time now. I don&#x27;t know what it&#x27;s called, but here&#x27;s what I remember:<p>- It was used at my local library in Connecticut during the early 90s.<p>- It was designed to be visually friendly, probably with kids&#x2F;non-tech people in mind (this was at a time when library catalogue-search computers were typically those green-screen WYSE terminals). This system displayed a home screen of large, square, colorful icons. These weren&#x27;t the usual 32x32 icons used by operating systems, they were maybe twice&#x2F;three times that size?<p>You could navigate different genres, drilling down to sub-genres. Each list of sub-genres was also represented by a grid of icons. They must have had hundreds of different icons.<p>- This ran on a Mac LC. It was <i>very</i> slow. I&#x27;m confident that this was not a web-based tool. (I don&#x27;t think HyperCard supported color at that time, but the system suggested a similar authoring tool, with different cards&#x2F;pages of icons.)<p>- I think the name may have been an acronym that was a word, but I&#x27;m not sure. I think I remember that the acronym included periods and was something search-related. &quot;S.H.E.R.L.O.C.K&quot; comes to mind, but I&#x27;m not getting any results for that.<p>- This didn&#x27;t use the standard Mac user interface style. Error&#x2F;help messages had a bright green picture-frame-style border around them, and an icon of a friendly robot who I think personified the system.<p>Any ideas? I would love to know what this was.

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