[Hitch]

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

I was amused. The bank I worked at used a mainframe based financial modeling package to do what Lotus 123 took over doing, and I was a resident expert in the mainframe package. I watched managers write memos as Lotus 123 text cells and print them out, because they knew how to more or less use Lotus, but didn't know how to use a word processor. Email did not then exist, and memos were photocopied and distributed in hard copy by sneakernet.

OMG....I've seen that sort of thing over and over, way back when. I mean...WHY? Sheesh.

I can't say a blame him. I find Google Maps a timesink, virtually traveling the world and looking at all manner of odd places. But I don't need them on my phone. (When you don't own a car or drive, and get places by paying other folks to transport you, maps are far less necessary.)

Mr. Hitch is a retired, old-school pilot. Maps and charts are his jam. ;-)

No. I mourn a bit for what it might have been, but it was strangled in its crib by disgreements between IBM and Microsoft over what it was supposed to be.

I had SUCH hopes for it. I was so, so damn excited when I saw it. But, as you say...sigh.

I had OS/2 Warp on a server at one employer. It just ran, and was part of a specialized telephony system. All I had to do was bring it up and shut it down, and nothing between. That's the sort of hands off I like.
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Dennis

Yupperdoodle.

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