I wonder if anyone has, or could create, a screenshot of VAX Notes in
action? I could use it for a presentation on collaboration tools. VAX
Notes was my first! Thanks so much -- please EMAIL ME DIRECTLY at
lance.a.simon@gmail.com

On Feb 5, 6:59=A0pm, Lance Simon <lance.a.si...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I wonder if anyone has, or could create, a screenshot of VAX Notes in
> action? I could use it for a presentation on collaboration tools. VAX
> Notes was my first! Thanks so much -- please EMAIL ME DIRECTLY at
> lance.a.si...@gmail.com

I don't have a screenshot but want to remind folk that Notes was one
of the first non-obvious tools to incorporate DECwindows/CDA support,
ie pretty text, pictures and maybe even sound, and maybe even
LiveLinks (which begat OLE) and all that jazz. It was fairly obvious
that tools like DECwrite, DECpresent and the corresponding spreadsheet
(whose name I forget) needed that kind of WYSIWYG support, it was less
obvious (to some) that such a facility added significant extra value
in Notes. Sadly there weren't many workstations in DEC (not even in
the bits that really needed them), and so the facility went largely
unseen both inside and outside DEC.

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 at 10:59 -0800, Lance Simon wrote:

> I wonder if anyone has, or could create, a screenshot of VAX Notes in
> action? I could use it for a presentation on collaboration tools.

In the absence of decuserve, you can still telnet to 
deathrow.vistech.net, create yourself a free account, run notes, and 
collect all the screenshots you desire.  You may even be able to log 
in as guest and do all these things.


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johnwallace4@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> On Feb 5, 6:59 pm, Lance Simon <lance.a.si...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I wonder if anyone has, or could create, a screenshot of VAX Notes in
>> action? I could use it for a presentation on collaboration tools. VAX
>> Notes was my first! Thanks so much -- please EMAIL ME DIRECTLY at
>> lance.a.si...@gmail.com
> 
> I don't have a screenshot but want to remind folk that Notes was one
> of the first non-obvious tools to incorporate DECwindows/CDA support,
> ie pretty text, pictures and maybe even sound, and maybe even
> LiveLinks (which begat OLE) and all that jazz. It was fairly obvious
> that tools like DECwrite, DECpresent and the corresponding spreadsheet
> (whose name I forget)

DECcalc or DECcalc-PLUS.

Lance Simon wrote:
> I wonder if anyone has, or could create, a screenshot of VAX Notes in
> action? I could use it for a presentation on collaboration tools. VAX
> Notes was my first! Thanks so much -- please EMAIL ME DIRECTLY at
> lance.a.simon@gmail.com

There is a CLI and the DECwindows (aka X-windows) interface. Which one 
do you mean?

Jan-Erik S�derholm wrote:
> johnwallace4@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>> On Feb 5, 6:59 pm, Lance Simon <lance.a.si...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I wonder if anyone has, or could create, a screenshot of VAX Notes in
>>> action? I could use it for a presentation on collaboration tools. VAX
>>> Notes was my first! Thanks so much -- please EMAIL ME DIRECTLY at
>>> lance.a.si...@gmail.com
>>
>> I don't have a screenshot but want to remind folk that Notes was one
>> of the first non-obvious tools to incorporate DECwindows/CDA support,
>> ie pretty text, pictures and maybe even sound, and maybe even
>> LiveLinks (which begat OLE) and all that jazz. It was fairly obvious
>> that tools like DECwrite, DECpresent and the corresponding spreadsheet
>> (whose name I forget)
> 
> DECcalc or DECcalc-PLUS.

I believe he probably meant the amazing, but 
rarely-seen-outside-of-Digital DECDecision.  What an amazing WYSIWYG 
spreadsheet that was, long before PC users had such products.  As near 
as I can tell, it was largely written in TPU, which just makes it all 
the more amazing!  It was DECwindows only, wherease DECCalc and Plus 
were for ASCII terminals originally.  (Did they ever come out with 
proper DECWindows versions of DECCalc?)

Duncan

Duncan Brown wrote:
> Jan-Erik S�derholm wrote:
>> johnwallace4@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>>> On Feb 5, 6:59 pm, Lance Simon <lance.a.si...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I wonder if anyone has, or could create, a screenshot of VAX Notes in
>>>> action? I could use it for a presentation on collaboration tools. VAX
>>>> Notes was my first! Thanks so much -- please EMAIL ME DIRECTLY at
>>>> lance.a.si...@gmail.com
>>>
>>> I don't have a screenshot but want to remind folk that Notes was one
>>> of the first non-obvious tools to incorporate DECwindows/CDA support,
>>> ie pretty text, pictures and maybe even sound, and maybe even
>>> LiveLinks (which begat OLE) and all that jazz. It was fairly obvious
>>> that tools like DECwrite, DECpresent and the corresponding spreadsheet
>>> (whose name I forget)
>>
>> DECcalc or DECcalc-PLUS.
> 
> I believe he probably meant the amazing, but 
> rarely-seen-outside-of-Digital DECDecision.  What an amazing WYSIWYG 
> spreadsheet that was, long before PC users had such products.  As near 
> as I can tell, it was largely written in TPU, which just makes it all 
> the more amazing!  It was DECwindows only, wherease DECCalc and Plus 
> were for ASCII terminals originally.  (Did they ever come out with 
> proper DECWindows versions of DECCalc?)
> 
> Duncan

Oops, maybe... :-)

Personaly I used DECquery which was an database query tool
running (in my case at least) on PC/Windows. :-)
It had the best Rdb compatibilily at the time...

On Feb 6, 12:27=A0am, Duncan Brown <brown...@eisner.decus.org> wrote:
> Jan-Erik S=F6derholm wrote:
> > johnwalla...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> >> On Feb 5, 6:59 pm, Lance Simon <lance.a.si...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> I wonder if anyone has, or could create, a screenshot of VAX Notes in
> >>> action? I could use it for a presentation on collaboration tools. VAX
> >>> Notes was my first! Thanks so much -- please EMAIL ME DIRECTLY at
> >>> lance.a.si...@gmail.com
>
> >> I don't have a screenshot but want to remind folk that Notes was one
> >> of the first non-obvious tools to incorporate DECwindows/CDA support,
> >> ie pretty text, pictures and maybe even sound, and maybe even
> >> LiveLinks (which begat OLE) and all that jazz. It was fairly obvious
> >> that tools like DECwrite, DECpresent and the corresponding spreadsheet
> >> (whose name I forget)
>
> > DECcalc or DECcalc-PLUS.
>
> I believe he probably meant the amazing, but
> rarely-seen-outside-of-Digital DECDecision. =A0What an amazing WYSIWYG
> spreadsheet that was, long before PC users had such products. =A0As near
> as I can tell, it was largely written in TPU, which just makes it all
> the more amazing! =A0It was DECwindows only, wherease DECCalc and Plus
> were for ASCII terminals originally. =A0(Did they ever come out with
> proper DECWindows versions of DECCalc?)
>
> Duncan

Thank you, that's the one. I remember DECalc as being a VT-type
product, I remember something very different on DECwindows, but I'd
forgotten it was called DECdecision.

Lance Simon wrote:
> I wonder if anyone has, or could create, a screenshot of VAX Notes in
> action? I could use it for a presentation on collaboration tools. VAX
> Notes was my first! Thanks so much -- please EMAIL ME DIRECTLY at
> lance.a.simon@gmail.com

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