> How do you connect information between two unrelated applications in the 1990s? The answer is another question. It depends if the two had any overlap/busine

> How do you connect information between two unrelated applications in the 1990s? The answer is another question. It depends if the two had any overlap/business talking to another. If they did you'd: 1. Save it to a common file format, ie. .csv, .wav then load it. 2. Cut and paste the rich text/media data directly. That handled just about every case unless you were wanting to pipe random binary data into a Word doc. There are now more standard formats so it has improved, but often already worked in the 90s. The real problem in the 90s to my mind was the lack of a stable (as in reliable) operating system, that could work in 8-12mb of RAM, and have lots of software. Every OS missed at least one of those qualifications. OS/2, NT 3&4, Linux were getting close but didn't have enough professional apps.