From: Rhonda Hyslop (0x7ff00025_at_paradox.homeip.net)
Date: Thu May 19 2005 - 11:41:29 PDT
* John Derbyshire <johnderbyshire_at_ntlworld.com> [12 May 2005 06:05]:
> No, it's not meant for project mgt , it's originally an education
> package from the Tom Snyder company designed to create timelines for
> history classes and the like. I want to use it for making timelines
> for different characters and political events in a play I'm writing.
> So, each character and sequence of events would have an independent but
> mergeable timeline. Helps a lot with a complex time scheme and
> dramatic structure.
Ha! I'm one of the people who got a copy from Woody, and I'm using it
for timelining my novel. :-) (Which just happens to have been written
entirely on a newton and features a newton-successor as the ubiquitous
general-purpose portable personal everything machine... the funny thing
is, the only new features I gave it were a colour screen and a new data
interface, and the colour screen is barely mentioned.)
> A couple of the good guys on this list have helped me out with
> downloads but I'd still like to buy a copy plus manual if I can find
> someone willing to sell (the Tom Snyder company no longer supply it).
I talked to the company who holds the copyright - they still sell
versions of TimeLiner (they're up to version 5 now I think) but only for
windows and mac. I asked about getting v 1.1, which I believe is the
last TimeLiner emate version, and they refused to sell it to me (said
they didn't have it available) or to give me permission to make a copy
of an existing version because they didn't want me to use "such an old
version". Too bad, because 1.1 seemed to have everything I need!
-Rhonda
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