For those who love spending their time endlessly filling things in – Filofaddists in other words – IBM Corp’s IBM Desktop Software unit has come out with IBM Current, which it describes as a personal information manager designed to help business professionals make better use of their time and information (by spending most of it filling the thing in): underlining IBM’s own ambivalence about OS/2 – or its commercial nous, which tells it that there really aren’t too many OS/2 users out there, the program is for MS-DOS and is designed to enable users to organise, relate and retrieve text and graphical data, and the thing offers category blanks that can be tagged for things like sales contact management, people management, time and expense billing, and project coordination; it includes the single application environment version of Microsoft Windows, includes predefined categories – people, companies, to dos, appointments, expenses and projects, needs a 640Kb 80286-based machine and sells for $400, now – and no, it isn’t an IBM conception, but results from an agreement signed in March between IBM Desktop Software and Jensen-Jones Inc, based in Red Bank, New Jersey.
