Project Development Timetable

The following timetable covers development of all three editions of The Literary Machine. See a chart comparing extant versions below.
Development Date Comment
First version of first edition (LM 1.x) 1997  
Third version of first edition (LM 3.x) 1999  
Pictures June 2000  
Win95/NT edition (LM 2000) Sept 2000  
LM Mailing list Sept 2000  
Sound April 2001  
XML interface May 2001  
Outline feature Sept 2001  
LM home-page refresh Oct 2001  
Excel Interface March 2002  
LM Professional Edition Release May 2002 100 %
LM home-page refresh June 2002  
1st Teaming Application July 2002  
LM Pro Vers 1.1 Aug 2002 Outline Pane
LM Pro Vers 1.3 Jan 2003 Bibl. notes
LM Pro Vers 1.4 June 2003  
Bibliographical Notes 2003 Ctd
Authoring OEB Ebooks 2003  
Data base import (ODBC) 2004  
LM Pro Vers 2.0 April 2004  
Concepts in "LM Maps" 2004  
Bibliographical Notes 2004 Ctd
LM Pro Vers 2.1 Aug 2004  
Advanced Search & Concordancer 2004/2005  
LM Pro Vers 2.2 May 2005  
LM Personal Information Manager Sep 2005  

 

LM Pro Database Connectivity Overview

See link to graph.


Comparison

The only extant version of LM's first edition is LM 3x. Two versions exist of LM 2000 (one for Windows 95 users). Development now centers upon LM Pro.
Program Platform Comment
LM 3x Win 3x, 95, 98 freeware, no longer supported
LM 2000 v 1.0 Win 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP freeware
LM 2000 v 1.1 Win 98, ME, 2000, XP freeware
LM Pro Win 98, ME, 2000, XP $47
INFORMATION FOR PROGRAMMERS