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Lotus Magellan
Original author(s)Bill Gross[1][2][3][4][5]
Larry Gross[6]
Developer(s)Lotus Development Corporation
Initial releaseApril 1989; 35 years ago (1989-04)[7][8][9][10]
Final release
2.0 / March 1990; 34 years ago (1990-03)[11][12][13]
Operating systemMS-DOS
Typedesktop search

Lotus Magellan is an MS-DOS desktop search package, conceived and developed by Bill Gross and released in 1989[7] by Lotus Development Corporation, most famous for Lotus 1-2-3. Lotus sold 500,000 copies of Magellan.[14]

  1. ^ The New Math of Ownership, By Bill Gross, Harvard Business Review, November-December 1998 Issue, ...In 1986, my brother, Larry, and I sold our software company, GNP Development, to Lotus Development and spent the next seven years as Lotus employees. But we felt like owners because, unlike other Lotus employees, Larry and I earned royalties on the products we developed for the company. These included HAL, a software program that simplified Lotus 1-2-3, and Magellan, which allowed PC users to quickly scan the contents of disks...
  2. ^ Beta Testers Sing the Praises of Magellan 2.0 By Barbara Darraw and Peggy Watt, InfoWorld, 19 Mar 1990, Page 5, ..."We've added tons of options," said Bill Gross, a Magellan developer...
  3. ^ Idealab's Find, PC Mag, 8 Apr 2003, Page 119, ..."I was doing this back in the 1980s with Lotus Magellan."...But the idea behind Magellan was a sound one, and creator Bill Gross and his current company, ldealab,...
  4. ^ Notes From The Field: Magellan on the rocks?, By Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld, 17 Feb 1992, Page 106, ...Unfortunately, the same can't be said for Lotus, which has a Windows version of Magellan — one of my favorite programs — but ... Fine, so they don't want the product, but what's worse is they won 't even sell it back to the developer, Bill Gross...
  5. ^ Lotus's Magellan: The Fast, Easy Way To Manage a Disk Full of Information, By Bill Howard, PC Mag, 13 Jun 1989, Page 33, ... Magellan is the brainchild of Bill Gross,...
  6. ^ A Successor to Magellan, R.I.P.?, By Jim Seymor, PC Mag, 3 Oct 2000, Page 107, ... Since then I've importuned Bill and Larry Gross, the brothers who wrote the program...
  7. ^ a b Magellan: Information Retrieval Software from Lotus, By Greg Scott, U-M Computing News, Volume 4, Page 10-12, ...Lotus. Magellan was announced in January 1989 with an April shipping date. With a list price of $195 (commonly discounted below $100), the program is not cheap, and it lacks some of GOfer's niceties. Yet Magellan works as it should...
  8. ^ Users Praise Lotus Magellan Upon Shipment, By Ed Scannell, InfoWorld, 24 Apr 1989, Page 21, ...Lotus Development Corp. shipped Magellan last week to users who are generally pleased with the program...
  9. ^ Reviews:Magellan Smoothly Links DOS Shell, Search Features, By John Walkenbach, InfoWorld, 15 May 1989, Page 73
  10. ^ HOT PROSPECT: Lotus's Magellan Sails Through Files and Displays Popular File Formats, PC Mag, 28 Feb 1989, Page 51, ...Called Magellan, the program reads the most popular file formats, ... Magellan, due out this winter, was written by Bill and Larry Gross,...
  11. ^ Improved: Lotus Magellan, Version 2.0, PC Mag, 27 Mar 1990, Page 54
  12. ^ Magellan: Strong text searcher, weak DOS shell, by Derek Slater, Computerworld, 3 Dec 1990, Page 55, ...With Release 2.0, Lotus Development Corp.'s Magellan...enhanced by support for 40 different file formats, up from 10 in Version 1.0...
  13. ^ Lotus upgrades Magellan, tunes up Symphony, By Sally Cusack, Computerworld, 26 Mar 1990, ...Lotus Development Corp. last week unveiled Version 2.0 of Lotus Magellan...
  14. ^ Zoot!, By James Fallows, August 1997 Issue, The Atlantic, ...Lotus sold roughly 200,000 copies of Agenda (at an average retail price of $195) and 500,000 copies of Magellan (around $50) before canceling each of them in the early 1990s...

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