What is Lotus Jazz?

An integrated package that includes five business functions: word processing, worksheet analysis, data base management, business graphics, and communications. Jazz, which runs on the 512K Macintosh, offers keyboard equivalents for common mouse actions, allowing you to keep your hands on the keyboard. The program can display multiple windows. Jazz's word processing function can be combined with the data base function for mail merging, with the worksheet to create reports containing both text and tables, and with graphics to insert illustrations into text. The worksheet has 8192 rows of 256 columns; several worksheets can be opened at once. The data base can be combined with the communications function to capture and subsequently analyze information. The data base allows you to use forms to enter, edit, and view information, and includes a report generator. The program's graphics function provides six types of graphs that can display information from the worksheet or the data base. Jazz s asynchronous communications function lets the Mac emulate DEC VT-52 and VT-100 terminals. You can send and receive information from Jazz worksheet or word processing documents, as well as convert information from 1-2-3, Symphony, and Multiplan files.

Nielson, Erfert (Ed.). (February 1985). Macware News. Macworld. (pg. 96).

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Architecture

Motorola 68K

System Requirements

From Mac OS 1.0 up to Mac OS 5.0

Compatibility notes

Macintosh 512K or later

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Architecture: 68K

Mac OS 1.x - Mac OS 5.x

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Lotus Jazz was originally coded to run on the Macintosh Plus (I think, I never had a Mac Plus).

In 1987 Apple brought out the Mac SE and the Mac II. I had a Mac SE. The SE ROM differed from the Mac Plus ROM, and Lotus Jazz did not function 100% on the SE ROM (but Jazz worked for most operations). As a result Lotus produced a supplementary 3.5" diskette containing (from my memory) what was called the "Lotus Jazz Updater", that was probably also the name of the supplementary disk. Running the "Updater" patched the Jazz programme so that it would work 100% correctly with the SE ROM. Probably the SE ROM and Mac II ROM were comparable / same vintage, so similar considerations could apply vis-a-vis moodifying the original Jazz software to run on the Mac II.

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Mini vMac