What is Consultant?

Consultant is a unique program for analysing and solving problems. Designed by a team of - what else? - consultants, the program is a software encapsulation of time-honored principles of decision making, scientific inquiry, planning, problem solving, and selling. Consultant doesn’t do the work for you; it simply provides thinking aids and problem-solving procedures. It’s up to you to provide the relevant information, ideas, and final decisions.

Consultant aims to be a general-purpose problem-solving tool, and the developers recognize the fact that different kinds of problems lend themselves to different procedures. Menus represent a variety of approaches: Begin, for getting started; Detect, for doing detective work about past events; Discover, for applying the scientific method to a situation; Create, for creatively exploring future options; Plan, for building and following steps to a concrete goal; and Sell, for convincing others that you’ve come up with something worthwhile. Each menu contains a sequence of steps designed to solve the problem at hand. Using Consultant is simply a matter of choosing a menu and answering the questions posed by each step.

Beekman, George. (May 1986). Consultant. Macworld. (pg. 142).

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Architecture

Motorola 68K

System Requirements

From Mac OS 1.0

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Mini vMac