I'm also astonished how little we used email back then. Most email clients were built around proprietary protocols and file formats, and had awful user interfac

I'm also astonished how little we used email back then. Most email clients were built around proprietary protocols and file formats, and had awful user interfaces. There were a lot of meetings. People tended to print stuff out a lot, on really crappy printers. 80x25 line terminals were pretty standard, at least in the DEC / Data General environments I was familiar with. When I left Atari for Apple, if anything the state of email was worse at Apple. People would run QuickMail, our department's favored client, on a spare Mac Plus because QuickMail would crash several times a day. So I'm not surprised that archives like this are relatively rare, and don't really capture what was going on at the company. Although you can get a very real sense of the hostility between Engineering and Marketing at Atari, which was the worst I've ever encountered.