from the June 1, 1987 issue of MacWEEK

by Michael Goodwin

Why is Alan Boyd’s office like a hypertext document? Because it is hard to know where to look first.

There is a high-powered Mac II work-alike (a Levco Prodigy with 4 Mbytes of RAM) driving a big, high-resolution screen displaying a complicated menu of a tour of the National Art Gallery.

Next to that, a color TV monitor (displaying the Annunciation) is hooked to a videodisc player. Across the room there are several bottles of an obscure, single-malt Scotch whisky sitting on a high shelf next to a black motorcycle helmet. On the opposite wall there is a proof copy of the high-gloss, full-color ad for which the motorcycle helmet was bought; it shows a futuristic, helmeted rider, with a color computer display gleaming in his face-shield, over the headline: PREPARE TO ENTER HYPERTEXT.