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Posted by Lothar Scholz
Oct 31, 2018 at 12:45 PM
Hugh wrote:
> Unlike
>the PIM from Threadz, which I think was created just down the road from
>where I then lived and which I found very useful indeed. I remember
>Lotus buying the company - and then not doing a great deal with it
Lotus Organizer. That was something i did use at the begin of this millenium.
And somehow i still think it looks good. After all this modern web designs going back to skeuomorphistic desktop software feels so different.
I think they gave up on it because they wanted everyone using Lotus Notes or every kind of PIMing.
The other surprise i got from Lotus was when i looked at Lotus Improv. Why did they burry this? It feels much better then Lotus 1-2-3 or Excel.
Posted by Marcos D.
Oct 31, 2018 at 01:47 PM
I know one guy that is still using Lotus Organizer; he trust it and does not think about migrating to another app; all of his life is there.
Posted by Hugh
Oct 31, 2018 at 04:00 PM
Lothar Scholz wrote:
>
>Hugh wrote:
>
>> Unlike
>>the PIM from Threadz, which I think was created just down the road from
>>where I then lived and which I found very useful indeed. I remember
>>Lotus buying the company - and then not doing a great deal with it
>
>Lotus Organizer. That was something i did use at the begin of this
>millenium.
>And somehow i still think it looks good. After all this modern web
>designs going back to skeuomorphistic desktop software feels so
>different.
>I think they gave up on it because they wanted everyone using Lotus
>Notes or every kind of PIMing.
>
I recall that Threadz/Lotus Organizer had neat little icons. “Skeuomorphistic” was indeed the word for them. I particularly remember the anchor that provided one end of in-appllication links - then a rare feature.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 31, 2018 at 04:19 PM
Lothar Scholz wrote:
>Are you saying i bought something wrong?
>
>I think i’m bringing CRIMPing to a new level now.
I really hope that all this will be put in a good museum some day. There’s an incredible amount of creativity and ingenuity in some of those apps, and I’m not sure at all that newer is better.
BTW, can you share what you paid for it?
Posted by Lothar Scholz
Oct 31, 2018 at 08:55 PM
Yeah, i will pass it on one day. It will not get trashed and end in a landfill like E.T.
At the moment i have a hard time to decide if i want to open it or keep it sealed like a pharaos tomb.
It’s always the same decision for collectors. In my mind i have the repeating vision of the Big Bang Theory episode with Sheldons “Spock in aBox”.
I payed just 15 Euro for this and 3 Euro for another sealed Version 3 of EccoPro. But intercontinental shipping was expensive.
The initial idea for this purchase was to make a few computer tech nostalgia videos for youtube reviewing and comparing old software to new ones - just for fun and to cool down all the new hippsters who think that they just invented the wheel, while knowing even less then Jon Snow about history. Thats a niche were you still find almost nothing, expect operating systems and games.
My collection already contains Q&A from Symantech, Lotus SmartSuite, AskSam DOS and Windows, IBM Symphony (DOS version), InfoSelect 1.0, ChartXL from Corel and Hardvard Graphics, Quattro Pro for DOS, Lotus Improv, ObjectVision and a lot of old and sometimes crazy software development systems.
If you aren’t into boxes and handbooks then you can browse “http://vetusware.com”. But thats only a fraction of the fun of having a real physical experience with this dinosaurs.