Re:Ontario's Computer: The Burroughs ICON
by jjmellon on Sunday April 03, 2022 @10:18PM
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I worked briefly for a Toronto company named Trigon that had a government contract in 1984 to produce interconnected office software (word processor, spreadsheet, calendar) for the Icon. The product was called "Emerald". I don't think the Icon hardware existed yet, we developed on Unix. As far as I know, the company went broke before the product was delivered.
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The founder of Trigon was a guy named Don Tapscott. Back then, he had a gift for hyping the "next big thing". I haven't thought or heard anything about him in decades, so it was interesting just now to find that he has a website (dontapscott.com, of course), and that his current passion is Blockchain.
Tapscott has been a "futurist" for years, probably decades now. Sadly the trouble with being a futurist is that you gotta keep making up a new future every year.