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[Mat]

I tried for several hours now to get the program GrabbyWindows. I even could not find exact informations about the latest Mac OS 9 version. The earliest version from the former website https://web.archive.org/web/20041010023721/http://www.end-if.de:80/E/Downloads/GrabbyWindow.html of "GrabbyWindow.sit" I could find (v. 2.5), is already a X program. Also the version from 2014 you can find at the archive is the X version.

Anybody around who got it? The company seems to be out of business for a decade.

[aBc]

Maybe this, Mat?

GrabbyWindow_206 Trial Version

It opens under OS 9 but I've no registration or serial number.

[Mat]

Well, thanks aBc, this is a first step. It seems to be a trial of the non-pro version. Where did you find it? Any hints what the latest version is?

[aBc]

You're most definitely welcome. I enjoy a good mystery and a possible rare find.

Sadly again, no reg or serial number but “GrabbyWindow MetaPro” might be what you seek. Found via dogpile.com AND duckduckgo.com search engines. Both hits lead to the Internet Archive (as you had already visited). However https://archive.org/details/tucows_294628_GrabbyWindow_MetaPro delivers one to two trial version .sit downloads. The first one is MetaPro v2.0.6 (for OS 9). The second .sit is for OS X which likely means that the first one listed is the last one for OS 9?



AND as the files originated from Tucows, maybe someone there might assist you in tracking down registration and serial numbers? Or even the software’s creator?

You possibly remember tucows from those thrilling days of yesteryear? If so, wait ’til you get a load of their website and current foci. Guess that 30 years can have quite a change over what once was a fledgling concern? https://www.tucows.com/ If it’s even the same company?

So perhaps as the collective we once did, if the Trial Version is a limited, timed-use bit of shareware, we simply uninstalled and re-installed the software - or set clocks / dates back. Unless someone here actually has the software and valid serial number. Hopefully the trial version is not feature limited.


And as with every quest such as this, I tend to discover other things… like the 87-88 Apple User Groups listings .pdf from COMPUTE’s Apple Applications Spring/Summer issue which I’ll also attempt to attach here. Some few of those MUGs might still be in existence today AND someone could have more of what you seek.

Also interesting to search “Ellen Petry Leanse” to see what she might still be up to these days.

Steve Jobs and Ram Dass?
(Ahh, grasshopper.) Be Here Now, indeed.

[Mat]

I love this "software archeology" ;)

The most advanced thing I ever did in this direction was to give the swiss "trade office" a call, ask for the names of the former owners of the cleared company, and subsequently found them via the public phone book. I even got the permission to give away the software "as is" and for free from them, but sadly never found a user with complete copy and serial.

[aBc]

I am laughing.
 
I think I remember you relating that Swiss “trade office” story before. And that is truly funny that my oft-now foggy brain remembers that. That bit about Ellen Petry Leanse led me to some blog post of hers concerning Jobs and the Think Different campaign - which I always considered the complete creative brainchild of the ad *agency (that my foggy mind can’t seem to remember at this point). But the creative “guy” behind it was Lee Clow.

And I once belonged to a now long-defunct Mac User Group here back in the 80’s and I know that some MUGs are still around. But good luck finding those old coots.

Now it’s just these young whippersnappers!

Get-offa-my-lawn!

* Chiat/Day ad agency…now TBWA\Worldwide

[xerograph]

Serial-Numbers for Grabby Window 2.0
gw200z88n-0987j-23q8g-9243c-5726z
gw200z88n-0987m-28q1w-9153v-6022e


Maybe just works with only the german version I used for over 20 years - but give it a try...
It was simply one of the best tools when I did layout with QuarkXPress on OS9 - almost essential and rock solid...

[Mat]

xerograph you are great! Sadly the numberss do not work with the "MetaPro v2.0.6" linked above. But as I anyways would love a German version, perhaps you have the installer as well?