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2025-05-04 19:45:13

"This is how Lotus was born: as a company featuring unprecedented benefits for their employees, fostering a culture of radical diversity and inclusion, cleverly mixing dashes of 1960s counterculture with the latest 1980s technology.
Two major names stand out in the creation of this culture: first, Janet Axelrod, who passed away in 2021, and who brought her experience at Digital Equipment Corporation in the areas of diversity and inclusion. Second, Freada Kapor Klein."

There Was A Time That Was Beautiful
Paraphrasing Charles Dickens, the 1980s were the best of times, were the worst of times. And no, I am not talking specifically about retrocomputing-related subjects, of which we have indulged in past issues of this magazine, but about the more complicated subject of society as a whole. Reaganomics, AIDS, Electropop, Perestroika and Glasnost, Thatcher, Miami Vice, Rubik's cubes, wars, Stallone, Chernobyl, Challenger, Bhopal, recessions, inflation, Solidarność, Madonna, Black Monday, E.T., Term…