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Globally it has a variety of often charming interpretations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign#Names_in_other_languag...
> snabel-a, the Swedish/Danish name (which means 'trunk A', as in 'elephant's trunk') This one is my favorite but I am biased because I grew up to this name. Always found it a funny name though.
I think there is something kind of fun about purposefully using "outdated" software, and even valuable sometimes, in the same way that it's useful to use a dead language like Latin nowadays; it's not changing so there's sort of a bit of "equality" to it, for want of a better word. For example, I've actually thought it might make sense for people to release new software on DOS or the Sega Genesis, simply because they'…
> can run on pretty much any modern platform under the sun Which is why web apps shine. Near-universal reach.
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Wordperfect at least existed for Unix platforms so might be somewhat portable to linux. I don't remember Lotus or Microsoft ever being on Unix back in the day. Though Lotus did have Improv on the NeXT so maybe they did...
WordGrinder is probably the only thing I can think of that’s open source and in the same spirit.
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This is waaaay off topic, but you've piqued my interest -- what on earth are you still testing with IE3 for?
Don't use any site he made... Anything compatible with IE3 is incompatible with modern privacy expectations (doesn't support any vaguely secure variant of HTTPS, and any server which supports old variants can't be protected against downgrade attacks, and therefore cannot protect users privacy)
Amazing story. Can't believe the Lotus FTP site is still live. Wonder where that thing is running and if anyone actually knows it still is. > I was able to find the drivers on an old ftp site. Wonder what FTP site this is and how he found it?
"Can't believe the Lotus FTP site is still live. Wonder where that thing is running" Had me curious as well. $ host ftp.support.lotus.com ftp.support.lotus.com is an alias for service.boulder.ibm.com. service.boulder.ibm.com has address 170.225.15.26 It's running WUFTPD 2.6.3, which is abandonware as far as I can tell. Though no open vulnerabilities listed.
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Nobody at IBM will ever want to be the person to suggest decommissioning a server that might make a paying customer yell at their manager. Expect it to continue forever.
Back in mid-2019, IBM took down their old IBM Library Server mainframe documentation website – http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/library – it was absolutely fascinating, it had documentation on mainframe products going back to the 1990s, and even other random stuff like a bunch of obscure IBM software packages for OS/2. Their new mainframe documentation site only has recent releases on it, it is mi…
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This is waaaay off topic, but you've piqued my interest -- what on earth are you still testing with IE3 for?
Don't use any site he made... Anything compatible with IE3 is incompatible with modern privacy expectations (doesn't support any vaguely secure variant of HTTPS, and any server which supports old variants can't be protected against downgrade attacks, and therefore cannot protect users privacy)
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Back in mid-2019, IBM took down their old IBM Library Server mainframe documentation website – http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/library – it was absolutely fascinating, it had documentation on mainframe products going back to the 1990s, and even other random stuff like a bunch of obscure IBM software packages for OS/2. Their new mainframe documentation site only has recent releases on it, it is mi…
So basically we need to archive the Lotus FTP site now , before they pull an Intel
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Nobody at IBM will ever want to be the person to suggest decommissioning a server that might make a paying customer yell at their manager. Expect it to continue forever.
Back in mid-2019, IBM took down their old IBM Library Server mainframe documentation website – http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/library – it was absolutely fascinating, it had documentation on mainframe products going back to the 1990s, and even other random stuff like a bunch of obscure IBM software packages for OS/2. Their new mainframe documentation site only has recent releases on it, it is mi…
Holy crap! That's so old that it's when I was programming (in assembler) on a 3090! (First programming job. Early to mid-90s. Moved to *nix. Never looked back)
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I had one of these in college! I hooked it up to a serial port and set up Linux to use it as a login terminal, so I could do email in Pine while my girlfriend worked on homework with the actual keyboard/mouse/monitor. It didn’t just have Lotus; it had a dedicated Lotus key.
Lotus 1-2-3 was the killer application. It was the reason for many people for buying a computer.