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by rmason 1138 days ago
That brings back some good memories. I started using Lotus 123 in the early eighties. I discovered macros and wrote templates that automated our fertilizer company. Stuff like inventory and blending fertilizer.

I was at a farmers once and got talking to his wife about Lotus and she showed me what she had built. She had a few boxes of software and books above her desk. The Lotus 123 box looked different than mine and found out she had version 1, not version 1A like the overwhelming majority that were sold.

I told her to never throw away that box and disks because sometime in the distant future she had a relatively rare collectors item. She laughed and said with my luck a competitor will come along and no one will ever want a rare copy. She may have been right.