PIM Cover story from 1988

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Posted by Pixelpunker
Jul 7, 2020 at 03:36 PM

In 1988 the then much-hyped Lotus Agenda apparently prompted PC magazine to produce a cover story about the then emerging category of software called Personal Information Managers. It starts with a short definition of what constitutes personal information vs. corporate information (that resides mostly in traditional databases on mainframes and minicomputers). The article then gives an overview of 25 software packages featuring many of the – let’s call them PIM classics occasionally mentioned here.

Fun read for the nostalgic.

Available as a scanned PDF from archive.org:

https://archive.org/download/PC-Mag-1988-12-13/PC-Mag-1988-12-13.pdf

Posted by Lb
Jul 7, 2020 at 10:10 PM

Thanks for the info and link.

I used to subscribe to this magazine back then and also a huge one called Computer Shopper I think. It’s been a while

This is a blast from the past for sure. Seems like it was just a few years ago I was reading it.

I used Agenda until around 2002. Ran great on an anything.

Posted by MadaboutDana
Jul 9, 2020 at 08:32 AM

Wow, this brought back memories! I used to read these mags religiously.

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