Guess who won the Groove drawing at Lotusphere
February 11 2005
I'm at lunch with a customer and a couple of kind people from Workflow Studios. It's kind of funny that I had to come here to learn who won Groove's drawing at Lotusphere for the framed Notes V1 memorabilia -- Sandy Lewis of Workflow Studios was the winner! Perhaps Sandy can add to this thread (after lunch, of course) with the description of what exactly Notes V1 was described as in the contract between Lotus and Iris.
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Thanks for meeting us for lunch yesterday!
I have sitting in front of me (soon to be hanging on my office wall) a framed presentation of Lotus Notes v1 on two 5 1/4 floppies (one for an OS/2 Install and one for a DOS Program Install) and a copy of the contract between Iris Associates and Lotus Development Corporation. The contract between Iris and Lotus Development Corporation was signed December 7, 1984, the software was delivered December 7, 1989.
The presentation also includes original signatures of Tim Halverson, Len Kawell, and of course, Ray Ozzie.
In case you're interested, I've reproduced the contents of Schedule A of the contract that describes the primary characteristics of the "Notes program". It's interesting to look back at how the Iris team was envisioning Notes in 1984:
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1. A system that allows for the creation, editing, and storage of documents. Documents are individually storable and retrievable objects that can range from a line of text to a novel, and can include non-textual objects such as graphs, digitized voice, digitized pictures, and so on.
Documents are created and edited by using the concept of "dynamically installable user interfaces" that pertain to the type of document being created or edited. For example, text can be edited by using a "word processing user interface" or an "outline editor user interface". Pictures could be edited by using a "painting" interface.
Documents are stored in proprietary data structures that have the following major properties: document repositories that contain documents that consist of pairs of "properties" and "values" that define document properties and contents, multi-user accessibility, per-user data structures that define the relationships between documents, per-user data structures that define current dispositions.
2. A system that supports the concept of "relation" of documents. Relations can be manual, that is, the user's specifying that several documents are related to each other, or can be automatic, in which case the relation of documents is defined based upon the presence of key words or phrases.
3. A system that supports the concept of group (multi-user) document manipulation, that is, one by which supports communication between individuals by means of the manipulation of documents. To date, these are known primarily as electronic mail or teleconferencing systems.
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There's more but that's the bulk of it and I've finished my morning coffee so I'm done :-).
So as they say, the rest is history...
and the Dutch guy who left this comment can kindly e-mail me ed@edbrill.com if he is trying to get my attention.