Cleaning out some stuff today and came across a box of Lotus123 installation diskettes . That was the popular spreadsheet back in the days what ever happen to that program? I remember how pissed I was when the company I was working for decided to switch to excel when all company info was in Lotus, which I thought was a very good program --- guess Microsoft killed it. I think it was bought out IBM.
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Anybody remember Lotus 123 spreadsheet
In reply to birdseye
I still have some of those disks and files around.
In reply to Casper
Guess there are some millennials around saying what the hell is Lotus123?
In reply to birdseyedo you remember " wang" ?
Lotus and its counterpart.....word perfect
Both were supposed to be better than excel and word rrspecively
But Darwinism doesnt only apply to humans
Like Novell.....they were swallowed up by the Microsoft behemoth
Betamax was supposed to be better than VHS too
Reel to Reel vastly superior to cassette
Etc etc
In reply to birdseye
I have it on my zip drive
delete
In reply to Casper
I have IBM 10-20 MB, 3.5"Formatted Diskettes.
My son's first job was to create files, from binders for me.
In reply to imusic
In reply to imusic
Lotus 123 spreadsheet
Lotus AMI-Pro word processor (renamed to Word-pro when IBM bought the suite)
Lotus Notes - Email/Messaging manager
Combined as a package named Lotus SmartSuite. They were the ones that introduced OLE (object linking and embedding) to manage the seamless integration of components of the suite. Microsoft struggled to compete in that regard.
I'm associated with an outfit which still uses Lotus Notes.
In reply to birdseye
Virtually everything IBM touched turned to dust in that era.IBM pushed OS/2 + Notes/123 like crazy and virtually nobody bought into that ecosystem.
In reply to Drapsey
What about the netscape browser and askjeeves search engine?
Dbase 3 for database management.
I miss lotus and wordperfect
Booting in dos and then loading windows
In reply to birdseye
Round about that time IBM had 21% share in Microsoft. For them it was a win/win situation whether Lotus SmartSuite triumphed over the then Microsoft competing title(s) or not.
For some reason (Lotus) IBM Notes still operates (satisfactorily) in corporate America at the chagrin of the competing MS OutLook.
In reply to imusic
You showing your age,I never mastered Lotus.
In reply to culpepperboy
In reply to Drapsey
If you want a fascinating look at IBM's downfall , look for a video on Youtube called The Decline of IBM from the The Market is Open channel.A pretty clear cut example what happens when you hand the company over to the beancounters , overvalue stock performance/buyouts and stop innovating.
In reply to birdseye
Yes.
Along with dBase and FoxPro I think it was.
I know a few orgs that still run Lotus Notes to this day
In reply to djdrastic
except they still have Watson
In reply to nick2020
Worked with both of them there were several iterations of dBase they were initially DOS based then they migrated to windows versions - I am sure I have a lot of diskettes around with lots a data in dBase data on them ----
In reply to birdseye
wasn't it Word Perfect that coined the term What You See Is What You Get (WISIWYG) pronounced wizzy wig ??
I was a Novell Netware guru for the entire Caribbean region back in my early days at ICL (International Computer Limited). I frowned at Windows NT 3.5 when it was first launched but boy did I learn a lesson as I watched that unfold. Netware was a solid network OS but they were not nimble enough to survive.
I am pretty certain that the Lotus suite was sold to Novell before it met it's demise....how come no one mentioned the 5 1/4 floppy disks? and what about token ring cabling? don't get me started
In reply to hotarobin
In reply to hotarobin
This is what COVID quarantine, stay at home does to you --- make you remember ancient past
In reply to birdseye
Speaking of COVID . One of the big things touted by the Watson and the Quantum Computing people was record time antiviral drug discoveries.
Boy if there was ever a time for it to shine it would be now.
In reply to birdseye
Do you recall DataEase? It was before FoxPro.
Lotus 123 was the boss!
In reply to djdrastic
just check - IBM has been on a steady rise
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