Double Helix II

Description

With Double Helix II you can easily create powerful business solutions – client tracking, inventory, project planning, accounting; association, medical, curriculum management, etc. – in a visual environment without programming.

Power and flexibility with it’s totally visual interface, easily modified structure, ad hoc queries, database triggers, data protection and reliability features such as AutoSave and Logging.

Open box, but this is new! I believe this is the original version of Double Helix II by Odesta.

The package is complete in it’s original box. If there was ever a sleeve for the box, it is missing. The registration card is missing. The manuals are still sealed. Packing list is in one of the photos.

System requirements are One megabyte of memory and any Macintosh compatible hard disk. The disks are 800K.

Also included is a Double Helix II update disk, version r55. This contains a major change as well as performance improvements and bug fixes. Also has the release notes.

From the New York Times, October 16, 1988:

“Program-generating programs are currently at the cutting edge of software technology. Basically, the commercial versions due out in a few months are substitutes for human programmers: They construct new programs on demand, following the user’s description of the desired form and functions.

Odesta Corporation’s Double Helix II (about $595 for Macintosh) is an early example of this program type. By manipulating on-screen images, users can not only customize the program – substituting, for example, foreign-language on-screen instructions for English ones – but actually create their own programs ”from scratch.” According to Odesta, customers have used the program to manage investments, generate form letters, keep track of membership in organizations and so forth.

A programmable program is one that permits a programmer, whether professional or amateur, to customize it by specifying how it shall operate, designing customized on-screen displays and enhancing its ”built-in” functions. Most programs in this category are intended primarily for business use. For the home user, the most common application is to custom design on-screen standard forms for household budgets, phone lists and the like.”