I decided to experiment with this one and install OS2 1.1 to see what it was like and make it a duel boot system. But at the end of the set-up for the duel boot I got an error and it didn't finish setting up so it left it just booting into OS2 and wasn't particularly interesting or that much different in appearance to Windows 3.0 I messed about with it and got it to boot back to DOS again. After all that I decided to format the hard disk and reinstall DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11 and Lotus Smartsuite version 4.0.
The Lotus Smartsuite I had got from a car boot sale last year (2001), it was an unopened set of disks and I hadn't got round to installing it on anything so I thought it was time to try it while I had got a computer with a decent amount of hard disk space to spare. I got very pissed off when it came up with a disk read error on disk 18 out of 37 and aborted the install. At this point I got Winimage to read the disk and check it was OK, all appeared to be fine so I decided to install it across the network from another computer floppy drive and see what happened, this time it went through the install without any problems. It's interesting to see what these other office suites are like and what they can do, it has some different features to play with the screen cam is a different idea. Although most of this type of suite do very similar things it takes a while to get used to the different layouts and differently worded commands.
