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==Reception== ''Compute!'s Apple Applications'' in 1987 stated that HyperCard "may make Macintosh the personal computer of choice". While noting that its large memory requirement made it best suited for computers with 2 MB of memory and hard drives, the magazine predicted that "the smallest programming shop should be able to turn out stackware", especially for using CD-ROMs.<ref name="caa198712">{{cite news |url=https://archive.org/stream/COMPUTEs_Apple_Applications_Vol._5_No._2_Issue_6_1987-12_COMPUTE_Publications_US#page/n9/mode/2up |title=Information On A Card |work=Compute!'s Apple Applications |date=December 1987 |access-date=18 August 2014 |pages=6}}</ref> ''Compute!'' predicted in 1988 that most future Mac software would be developed using HyperCard, if only because using it was so addictive that developers "won't be able to tear themselves away from it long enough to create anything else".<ref name="leemon198804">{{cite news |url=http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue95/049_1_MICROSCOPE_THE_HAZARDS_OF_HYPERCARD.php |title=The Hazards of HyperCard |work=Compute! |date=April 1988 |access-date=18 August 2014 |author=Leemon, Sheldon |pages=49}}</ref> ''[[Byte (magazine)|Byte]]'' in 1989 listed it as among the "Excellence" winners of the Byte Awards. While stating that "like any first entry, it has some flaws", the magazine wrote that "HyperCard opened up a new category of software", and praised Apple for bundling it with every Mac.<ref name="byte198901">{{Cite magazine |date=January 1989 |title=The Byte Awards |url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1989-01/1989_01_BYTE_14-01_PC_Communications_and_Annual_Awards_and_Digitizing_Tablets/page/n371/mode/2up |magazine=[[Byte (magazine)|Byte]]| volume=14 |issue=1 |page=327}}</ref> In 2001 [[Steve Wozniak]] called HyperCard "the best program ever written".<ref name="macworld20010622">{{cite news |url=http://www.macworld.com/article/1018126/woz.html |title=Wozniak's fireside chat |work=Macworld |date=2001-06-22 |access-date=16 February 2015}}</ref>
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