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Crossties. It was a relational desktop for Windows 3.1 which could replace progman and allow you to set up associations with projects, contacts, etc -- for exam

Crossties. It was a relational desktop for Windows 3.1 which could replace progman and allow you to set up associations with projects, contacts, etc -- for example, opening up someone's contact info would pull up the documents you were working on for them, etc. 20 years later, we still really don't have anything that can provide that sort of context on the desktop, or even worse, we don't have those kinds of relationships available for our phones.

MortenK 10y ago
Extremely interesting application. I googled it and found a PC Mag review from 1994 with a funny passage: "We did a direct import of a 1000 record database from both ACT! And Organizer, and the operation took only a minute on a 486 system" :-)
fzn 10y ago
That spiked my curiosity. If anybody has more on this, I believe it should be shared somewhere. Besides a PC Mag excerpts and a listing on some russian utilities compilation CD page, the interwebs look devoid. https://books.google.com/books?id=LYp7r6OrMdIC&pg=RA1-PA172&lpg=RA1-PA172&dq=%22Cross+Ties+Software%22&source=bl&ots=YXh7kvJdcV&sig=H8ISzPG0el7k_42n8_Kiulew_yI&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Cross%20Ties%20Software%22&f=X https://books.google.com/books?id=LYp7r6OrMdIC&pg=RA1-PA172&...
- j_s 10y ago
  Not sure this would focus much on the OP's favorite features but this sounds like the same software (starts around 11:20): https://archive.org/details/VirtualM https://archive.org/details/VirtualM This program looks at several early examples of virtul meeting technology. Demonstrations include Cross Ties for Workgroups Much better luck searching for the software company: https://www.google.com/#q=crossties+software+corp https://www.google.com/#q=crossties+software+corp Buy Crossties today for $55: http://www.amzn.com/dp/B000LUXSH6 http://www.amzn.com/dp/B000LUXSH6 An expired patent, cited 26 times: http://www.patentbuddy.com/Patent/5787440 http://www.patentbuddy.com/Patent/5787440

MortenK 10y ago

Extremely interesting application. I googled it and found a PC Mag review from 1994 with a funny passage: "We did a direct import of a 1000 record database from both ACT! And Organizer, and the operation took only a minute on a 486 system" :-)

fzn 10y ago

That spiked my curiosity. If anybody has more on this, I believe it should be shared somewhere. Besides a PC Mag excerpts and a listing on some russian utilities compilation CD page, the interwebs look devoid. https://books.google.com/books?id=LYp7r6OrMdIC&pg=RA1-PA172&lpg=RA1-PA172&dq=%22Cross+Ties+Software%22&source=bl&ots=YXh7kvJdcV&sig=H8ISzPG0el7k_42n8_Kiulew_yI&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Cross%20Ties%20Software%22&f=X https://books.google.com/books?id=LYp7r6OrMdIC&pg=RA1-PA172&...

j_s 10y ago
Not sure this would focus much on the OP's favorite features but this sounds like the same software (starts around 11:20): https://archive.org/details/VirtualM https://archive.org/details/VirtualM This program looks at several early examples of virtul meeting technology. Demonstrations include Cross Ties for Workgroups Much better luck searching for the software company: https://www.google.com/#q=crossties+software+corp https://www.google.com/#q=crossties+software+corp Buy Crossties today for $55: http://www.amzn.com/dp/B000LUXSH6 http://www.amzn.com/dp/B000LUXSH6 An expired patent, cited 26 times: http://www.patentbuddy.com/Patent/5787440 http://www.patentbuddy.com/Patent/5787440