The 30-second technique developed has proved very successful. Because of this technique, the author and many of his co-workers and students have all the information in their personal computer in hypertext form. Many cannot envision how they got things done before hypertext. The author abandoned the software when hypertext jumps took up to 20 seconds for an 80K byte hypertext on a XT computer. Jump-time increased as the size of the hypertext increased.
Readers stop making jumps if jumps start taking any perceptible time.
In fairness to the company, they recommended a 386-class computer, but our target readers then only had slower computers. It was constructed using the hypertext software recommended in this paper. One uses IBIS systems to solve complex problems difficult to solve otherwise. The method consists of stating an issue as a question and then proposing positions that are answers to the question. Arguments for and against each position are then made.