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| Thread ID: 150661 | 2022-05-09 09:08:00 | IT History Answers requested | Neil F (14248) | PC World Chat |
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| 1486104 | 2022-05-09 09:08:00 | I first used a PC in 1984. Many programmes and companies have long ago disappeared. Can members recall why some disappeared? For brevity I'll use SS for spreadsheet. Wang (Fact) had ss Wingz I cannot remember its Word programme. Other ss were Javelin and Multiplan-I'm sure there were others. Lotus had ss 123 v1.1 a Word programme -Amipro - later changed to ??? and Freelance Graphics . I loved their Organiser programme Lotus Agenda in DOS but when they moved tit o a Windows version I thought it lost too much functionality. Emails (later on ) became Lotus Notes. Harvard Graphics was highly regarded-was it part of a suite?. Corel suite (I recall Wordperfect) still survives in some form -Corel Draw. DEC was a major hardware supplier. Where did all these programmes and Hardware companies go and what was the cause ? Windows and Office 365 seems so dominant these days- how/why did that occur? I recall IBM bought Lotus but can't remember how/why cost of a court case? I welcome comments and memories of others which I have not listed/can't remember |
Neil F (14248) | ||
| 1486105 | 2022-05-09 11:15:00 | You are going back ehhh!!!. Watties/CropperNRM sent out IBM pcs' to all of it's subsidiary branches, Watties in ChCh. got Lotus123 and we NRM Feeds got Lotus Symphony. We were all told to set them up and write programs for all our functions. Lotus was taken over by IBM as you say. Loved a software called XTGold, it was good for editing programs, as a lady doing the wages program had forgotten her password, I managed to look into that program and find it for her. They were taken over by ZTGold and almost identical in every way. DEC was the mini computer machine and was what Polytech used. The IBM mainframe is still about, I think!. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. lurking. ps. Just last week, I was thinking about the Northern Roller Mills, flour mill in Auckalnd and the Mount and I see they were bought by a Japanese Company and the Feed Mills have also been gobbled up. |
Lurking (218) | ||
| 1486106 | 2022-05-09 19:56:00 | Mainframes are still used, but to a lesser degree. Some of the banks still use them, and the IRD (if you're after mainframe programming jobs - COBOL and Assembler - they're about the only places that will hire you). | psycik (12851) | ||
| 1486107 | 2022-05-09 22:07:00 | I first used a PC in 1984. Many programmes and companies have long ago disappeared. Wang (Fact) had ss Wingz . Other ss were Javelin and Multiplan Lotus had ss 123 v1.1 a Word programme -Amipro - and Freelance Graphics . Corel suite (I recall Wordperfect) still survives in some form -Corel Draw. DEC was a major hardware supplier. Ami Pro was discontinued Javelins company's assets purchased by Information Resources, Incorporated (IRI), until 1994 when IRI was itself purchased by Oracle Corporation, who promptly discontinued the product. Freelance was eventually grafted into a new version of 1-2-3 for Windows (Smart Suite), but by then PowerPoint and Excel had become dominant. eventually the name Wingz was dropped and the product became HyperScript Tools. After several years of ignoring it further, it was sold off to Investment Intelligence Systems in the UK. And various others - newer - bought and morphed or vanished etc by the new company. Much like actual companies too. |
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