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Please write a blog post about this - are you saying you had Lotus 1-2-3 working on a 3270 terminal and they sold it?
by smackeyacky 3y ago
Please write a blog post about this - are you saying you had Lotus 1-2-3 working on a 3270 terminal and they sold it?
- electroly 3y agoThis product was publicly known; it was called Lotus "1-2-3/M" and you can find a little information (not a lot) by googling for that name. The Wikipedia article for 1-2-3 also cites a few scanned articles from the time, although sadly they also have some broken citations here.
- beachy 3y agoNo blog posts coming but yes, a port of lotus 123 that worked beautifully on terminals of the day particularly3279 colour terminal. The premise was that people were already pushing the limits and building incredibly elaborate systems on spreadsheets, so why not go to the next level and leverage the huge processing power of big iron. Actually a very solid idea and I worked with a few progressive customers that bought into it. My job was as a sales engineer, helping customers adopt it in Europe, particularly Scandanavia. It's Tuesday so it must be Copenhagen. What a great job and a super team in lotus at the time.
- smackeyacky 3y agoNow that is awesome. I worked at a place that had the sun version of 1-2-3 running for a guy who had blown the memory limit of the MS-DOS version during that awkward period where windows still wasn’t quite a thing. That spreadsheet gave us nightmares