[DonHopkins]

Check out the stylish 8 bit error diffusion dithered gradients and cheesy 90's drum loop in this delightfully retro but content-free "Apple OpenDoc Technology Intro" -- the take-away point is that Apple and IBM and Oracle were really pushing OpenDoc and making a lot of promises about supporting it for a while:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFJdjk2rq4E

>Video clip from the original Apple OpenDoc: A Crucial breakthrough! CD

This one has a much funkier intro, and has more substantial down-to-earth information about OpenDoc. He's got HyperCard and AppleScript in their original boxes on the shelf behind him, so he knows what he's talking about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FSFvEIpm5o

>OpenDoc: A New Standard for Compound Documents, a lecture by Kurt Piersol. The video was recorded in March 1994.

>From University Video Communications' catalog:

>"OpenDoc represents a new standard method of building editors which support assembly and editing of compound documents on many computing platforms. Kurt Piersol discusses the need for compound document systems, their requirements, and OpenDoc's industrial and technical approach."