The history of Lotus Notes and the influence of PLATO.

[amoroso@oldbytes.space]

The history of Lotus Notes and the influence of PLATO. A journey through long forgotten software genres and product categories.

LotusNotes

Computers Are Bad (computer.rip)

#lotus #plato #retrocomputing

[humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world]

@amoroso we had a notes database of software, manuals, drivers and documents called Genie that was based on the then IBM owned Lotus notes, database replication was the main issue back then

[amoroso@oldbytes.space]

@humanhorseshoes Was replication unreliable?

[ukscone@cupoftea.social]

@amoroso one of my favourite non-fiction computer history books is The Friendly Orange Glow about the rise and fall of PLATO and what could have been.

I caught the tail end of the PLATO era via a TI99/4A in a store in Leicester

The Friendly Orange Glow book

(friendlyorangeglow.com)