[Am-info] query about MS "Innovations"

[madodel@ptdprolog.net]

In <3CA5738A.BEA47DC6@hccnet.nl>, on 03/30/02 at 09:12 AM,
   Kris Steenhaut <kris.steenhaut@hccnet.nl> said:

>> Lotus had a DOS integrated WP, spreadsheet, database called Symphony back
>> in 85-87 I think.

>Make that back to 92-93. Symphony 3.00 that was.

By 1991 I was working at a different company that only used Word Perfect
(and some DisplayWrite for a bit) on their pcs.  Must have been version
1.0 or 2.0 then in 1986-87 

I just remember having to support people using Wordstar for wordprocessing
and 1-2-3 for spreadsheets, and then Symphony was brought in, which was
completely different and I had to figure it out to teach everybody how to
do the same things in Symphony as they did in Wordstar and 1-2-3.  That
was back in 1986-87.  At the time I was a mainframe programmer, who was
given the "spare time" job of supporting all the pc users (hardware and
software) in the company (a 5 hospital healthcare system).  When I gave up
that "spare time" job because it was consuming almost all my time, they
replaced me with a 3 man department.  By the time I left that company a
couple years later they had a couple of departments that did nothing other
then provide pc support (one group software and one group hardware).  


Mark


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