Google| Subject | Re: spreadsheet ergonomics |
| From | Steve Carroll |
| Date | 04/13/2017 00:10 (04/12/2017 15:10) |
| Message-ID | <c9704c5d-f54c-4ee8-8514-a485573251da@googlegroups.com> |
| Client | |
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy |
| Follows | Silver-Tongued Heel |
On Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at 3:47:09 PM UTC-6, Silver-Tongued Heel wrote:
Silver-Tongued HeelEarly to mid 80s, I think it was '84.
On 2017-04-12 1:42 PM, Steve Carroll wrote:Steve CarrollSilver-Tongued Heel
On Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at 10:24:46 AM UTC-6, DFS wrote:DFSSteve Carroll
On 4/12/2017 10:10 AM, Melzzzzz wrote:MelzzzzzDFS
On 2017-04-12, DFS <nospam@dfs.com>wrote:DFSMelzzzzz
On 4/12/2017 8:33 AM, Melzzzzz wrote:MelzzzzzDFS
then again, not until 1994 I really start to enjoy computers...
Why not? I enjoyed DOS programs from '85 to '91 or so: Norton Commander, Javelin, Lotus 1-2-3, dBase, Paradox, Norton Utilities...
And then a little later came Doom and Heretic and Hexen.
I couldn't afford PC in that time...
Yeah, they were expensive back then. I think my Dad gave me my first PC (an 8086).
Today USD 1500 will get you a nice PC. That's 174758 RSD. Will that buy you a good system over there? Is that expensive relative to rent and food and gasoline?
I worked with PCs but I wanted an Apple. They were initially too expensive so I waited until the IIe came down to around $1500.00, which was still a bit of $$ back then.
What year was this?
I still have trouble accepting that people actually got work done on those 8-bit machines. They seemed fairly useless.They were useful. As an example pertinent to the business I was in at the time... I worked QA/QC in Silicon Valley, as a result I was familiar with a number of job-shops I had to frequent for onsite inspection. We made semi-conductor related quartz products, which one of these shops was laser drilling for us, they used the IIe to move the head. It worked well... but it was a system that's probably best described as a poor man's CNC ;)
03/31/2017-
-
-
