It's an amazing story really, this project. And, what was it about the word "lotus" back then; surely the name-as-meme bore some tremendous global significance and possibly world-horoscope-level weight. It was kind of a powerful word.

And I mean James Bond was even in on it.

I do look at the graphics with a bit of longing curiousity though...I wonder if I could get Lotus SmartSuite for Windows 95 running again, just to try it for nostalgia.

SmartSuite was bundled with one of my first PCs (toward the end of the days when the word lotus was still kinda cool), and I still remember looking at the blank agenda (and even the paper binder-planner skeuomorphism in Organizer) and full office launcher, and just taking in the raw organizing power of those tools...a real "where do you want to go today (TM)" feeling!

("I'll play Jane's USNF for a couple hours and then eat cereal for dinner" never felt quite right to fill in on the agenda, but that turned out to be where I wanted to go today, on so many days back then)