Software and Documentation, Framework Documentation by Ashton-Tate
date: label: date made
content: 1984
name: label: maker
content: Ashton-Tate
notes: label: Description
content: This documentation is for Framework, an integrated software package, released in 1984 by Ashton-Tate for $695. The software package included database management, word processing, graphics, spreadsheet, outlining, and telecommunication functions as well as its own programming language, FRED (FRamework EDitor) for data manipulation. This productivity tool encouraged users to be organized by asking them to create a frame (an all-purpose container) and place related documents, spreadsheets, databases, drawings, pictures, charts, or other frames in it. Data manipulation would take place within the frame. The same commands were used to navigate in all functions.
label: Description
content: The original container includes two binders, Reference and Tutorial, a software license agreement, and a Dow Jones News/Retrieval access offer and price quote.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: “InfoWorld,” October 29, 1984.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.3098.010
label: catalog number
content: 2012.3098.010
label: nonaccession number
content: 2012.3098
objectType: label: Object Name
content: documentation
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: cardboard (overall material)
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content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/2 in x 8 3/4 in x 4 in; 26.67 cm x 22.225 cm x 10.16 cm