Software Nostalgia....
 

Moving offices recently and in the bowels of our storeroom, came across relics of the 386/486/586 age.....Lotus SmartSuite software! I used WordPro, 123, and Organizer religiously and exclusively for several years before switching to the dark side.

I think i'm going to reinstall it on my 2.33Ghz laptop and see what happens! :D

Anyone else still using outdated software for nostalgic reasons?

Every now and then I'll find one of my old packages, and install it. Many of them are software products I had awesome memories of. But once they are installed I'm reminded that we live in 2007, and that they are so outdated that I couldn't work with them for more than a few minutes...

Sometimes I think about it, but all my old software is on diskettes. My current computer doesn't have a diskette drive, nor did its predecessor. Don't know why I keep the things around. Nostalgia here too, I suppose.

That said, sometimes I long for the simpler user interfaces. Those packages didn't do everything today's do, but they generally did what I needed without all the features I don't need (can anyone say "bloatware?") getting in the way.

I still have copies of Lotus Notes v1, v2, & v3 on my book shelf (server and client). I haven't re-installed them for years but can't bring myself to throw them out either.

Ok...got it installed...and reminisced for about two minutes before uninstalling the programs. One thing on the box did catch my eye though...there is a sticker stating 'The world's first WYSIWYG Software for Home Computers!' - is that just marketing mumbo jumbo or is there some truth to that? As far as i can remember WordPro was the first WYSIWYG program that i used, prior to that it was Word Perfect!

Oh. I thought you were going to come out with something REALLY nostalgic, like XTREE or something. Where did I leave those disks....

I still use "vi" and its just as good today :)

sometimes I use Emacs too.. but prefer vi.

Multimate isn't noticeably faster on a 4GHz machine as opposed to the old 4MHz machine, if you discount faster loading from a hard disk compared to 5¼" floppies.

Ahh, the good old days . . . KayPro, The Epson QX-10 with ValDocs, extended vs. expanded memory, actually installing RAM chips onto motherboards and expansion cards, DIP switches, Hercules graphics adapters, GEM/Topview/DesQview, the nearly infinite storage space provided by a 10MB hard drive . . .

(sorry, a little hardware nostalgia in there too)

I weep for the past :(

And for someone who's been working with PCs since before IBM popularized them as a business tool, I find a delicious irony in the fact that 'vi' comes standard on the Mac now :D

I thought exactly the same thing, XTree and NSweep. I have XTree 0.8 or 0.9 on a 5-1/4 floppy in the original box (somewhere), documentation is mimeographed.

I found a copy of my Mulitplan install disks not too long ago.

And I still remember hacking away as a kid on my first IBM PC using edlin (which still works at an XP command prompt, btw). When I got to Emacs it was nirvana. Kermit, ALOE, IBM/RT, Mach, Leisure Suit Larry....

I still have installed, and regularly use, a financial planning package from Vanguard, VRP3, dated Feb. 6, 1995.

And when that wasn't enough space, there was always Stacker.

I wish I could do a dual boot between WinXP and Windows for Workgroups 3.11. I'll be WFWG would fly :D

I still use Wordstar 5
 

WS5 is still on my system and still used as my assembly language source code editor. For a real wayback experience, I have the collors set to green text on a black background.

Crosstalk 16 is still my com program of choice.:D

Procom & Procom Plus are sweet memories here.