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Design Gallery : IBM Time and Place for Macintosh

IBM® Time and Place® was a full-featured network calendar for the enterprise, using the IBM AIX operating system running on IBM RS/6000 servers. The end-user application was initially created for IBM OS/2 version 2 and Microsoft Windows version 3.1, then ported to Macintosh OS 7.

tapmac - main calendar page tapmac - event definition page tapmac - viewing rights page tapmac - free time search page

My role on this project:

  • Team leader for the Macintosh Time and Place Calendar team.
  • Responsible for interviewing and hiring decisions.
  • Responsible for the interface design changes necessary to convert a Windows calendar to a Macintosh version.
  • Programmer in the Calendar team using C++ with the Symantec Think Class Library and Metrowerks CodeWarrior compiler.
  • Installed and managed the Ethernet/LocalTalk/Token Ring environment connecting our Macintosh Ethernet network to the IBM-wide token ring network over TCP/IP.
  • Installed and managed our Macintosh World Wide Web server on the internal IBM Internet.
  • Used HTML to design web pages to display information about the Macintosh Time and Place Calendar.