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Lotus Notes V1 Download Now Working (updated)

As Ed Brill wrote IBM made downloads of the original Notes versions available on occasion of Notes' 15th birthday. The first posting of the Notes V1 package was broken and the downloads have officially been removed by February 4th. Since Ed promised to put up a working version I just checked the trials&betas download page again today and I found that they finally posted a working Notes V1 download package. The file name has changed from the previous (not working) version and the size is now about 5MB.

About Lotus Notes V1.0

Database Info

Design Field Properties

Sample E-Mail

Server Document

Posted by Jens Polster On 02.13.2005 | Permalink

Comments

1 - Thanks for the tip! I don't know why, but it was bugging me that I got ver 2 and 3 but not ver 1. I must be a geek.

Posted by Andrew Kelly At 21:59:02 On 13.02.2005 | - Website - |

2 - What's the tricK? I've run the install, but when I type notes.exe, I get an error, and notes.com gets me nothing.

Posted by Greg Walrath At 19:07:18 On 14.02.2005 | - Website - |

3 - @2 (Greg) - I have installed Notes V1 in a VMWare virtual machine on DOS and Win 3.x (only the workstation). So far I have not been able to find the right OS for the server to work. It probably needs Windows 2.1 (which I don't have). The client works fine though.

Posted by Jens Polster At 19:21:22 On 14.02.2005 | - Website - |

4 - @2 during the first notes client launch, i got an errormessage "cannot write/create file". After creating an emtpy notes.ini manually containing a [notes] section in the first line, the good old notes client started to work.
my system is a virtual pc running os/2 warp 4.52, the notes client runs (walks) in a win/os2 window.

Posted by Henning Kunz At 20:46:36 On 14.02.2005 | - Website - |

5 - Thanks, I'll give that a try.

I noticed in the c:\museum\lotusnotesv1 directory, there is a 'winsetup' directory that appears to contain Windows.

Posted by Greg Walrath At 21:28:40 On 14.02.2005 | - Website - |