Subject | Re: spreadsheet ergonomics |
From | Marek Novotny |
Date | 04/13/2017 14:27 (04/13/2017 07:27) |
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Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy |
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Chris AhlstromI was interested in SAS C on the Amiga around that time.
Marek Novotny wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:Marek NovotnyChris Ahlstrom
On 2017-04-12, Silver-Tongued Heel <sl@im.er>wrote:Silver-Tongued HeelMarek Novotny
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.
You could learn to program in basic back then. On the Commodore 64 basic was the command line.
I bought an assembly language cartridge to play with 6502 assembler.
Only played with for awhile, before I bought an Atari ST, which is my most nostalgic computer. I used that for BBS access, games, and a lot of work with MIDI. Even a little C programming.
Soldered additional memory chips piggy-back to double its RAM to 1 Meg.I used an Elevator board on my Amiga 1000 to bunmp it up to 1.5 MBs internally.
-- Marek Novotny https://github.com/marek-novotnyMarek NovotnyChris Ahlstrom
VisaCalc was born on the 8 bit Apple ][ which as you know is the start of the spreadsheet as we know it today. You could type up pages of text and when it was perfect, you print it just once, rather than typing pages of text and hoping you don't screw up somewhere and have to do it again. And that's just the basic tasks. We used to have human computers that would calculate by hand. Even an 8-bit computer is vastly superior to those days.
Even superior to a soroban expert?
http://tallgary.blogspot.com/2014/08/amazing-rack-of-beads-japanese-soroban.html
I had one of those, too, and it was fun, though I never got fast at it.