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Posted by Franz Grieser
Aug 2, 2011 at 10:07 PM
MsJulie wrote:
>What am I showing—age or experience?
Experience I’d say. I started with Sidekick and TornadoNotes in 1988, and still have Infoselect on my main computer.
Franz
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Aug 2, 2011 at 10:21 PM
I was a Sidekick user myself. The application I had in which you could clip text in one application and paste it into another. That seemed like the ultimate in convenience. I also used MemoryMate and a great little PIM called InstantRecall, before I found GrandView.
Steve Z.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Aug 2, 2011 at 10:21 PM
That should say, “The FIRST application I had…”
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>I was a Sidekick user myself. The application I had in which you could clip text in one
>application and paste it into another. That seemed like the ultimate in convenience.
>I also used MemoryMate and a great little PIM called InstantRecall, before I found
>GrandView.
>
>Steve Z.
Posted by MsJulie
Aug 3, 2011 at 12:18 AM
Franz!
I have InfoSelect on my computer, too, though I use it mainly to get at the megabytes of old files I have in it. Ideas really do have a half-life!
Cheers, Julie
Posted by Zman
Aug 3, 2011 at 03:46 AM
I’ve been a MaxThink user since 85/86 and it was a mature program at that point - I’m thinking version 2 or 3. Brainstorm did not come close to Maxthink in usefulness at the time. MaxThink was not just software - it was a philosophy - the book (not manual) that came with the program was essential reading to get the most out of the software. I loved Houdini as well (though it was hard to actually use to produce anything, the concept was cool) and Transtext was one of my all time most useful programs. Neil was ahead of his time and was trying to build on Ted Nelson’s vision of Xanadu in early hypertext days. Agenda came out and then GrandView, but MaxThink was more of a pure idea processor. I would put the DOS version on my computer now if I had a floppy drive available - I’m not a fan of the windows version. Ecco Pro was the program than finally pulled me away from MaxThink.
As far as the other stuff around back then - Sidekick was essential, then Desqview came out and Infoselect. Unfortunately, software Crimping was a more expensive habit back then - though shareware did feed the beast with stuff like Black Magic, etc - as long as you were willing to write short software reviews.
All that being said - today’s software is much more useful and I don’t waste hours and days configuring and troubleshooting the system all the time (unless I get linux fever - happens less and less).