20 Oct
2011
20 Oct
'11
4:15 p.m.
Excel is easy to use and comes with all Windows based computers. Sadly I am
not old enough (or lucky enough) to have used any alternatives - though I
have heard of Lotus long before I joined this list.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Gahlinger" <dgahling at hotmail.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>; "On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at
classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 11:54 PM
Subject: RE: Spreadsheets (was Microsoft flamage)
you're kidding right?
excel is a joke. 1-2-3 was much better,
quattro was even better
sadly both have been crushed by monopoly of m$
is quattro old enough to be considered classic computing yet? :)
=
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:43:53 +0100
Subject: Re: Spreadsheets (was Microsoft flamage)
From: lproven at gmail.com
To: cctech at classiccmp.org
On 19 October 2011 23:27, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
>> > Excel - well, it's the most polished spreadsheet there's ever
been.
>> > Other did some things better, but Excel does everything you could
ever
>> > need.
>
> Read the book "Laboratory Lotus : A Complete Guide To Instrument
> Interfacing"; Louis M. Mezei, Prentice Hall, 1989
> ISBN[10]: 0-13-519885-2
>
> 'Twould be presumptuous to specify "everything you could ever need".
> Some of us have unusual needs, that you might consider bizarre.
>
> "You can't always get what you want. But if you try sometime, you get
what
> you need"??
>
>
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Tony Duell wrote:
>> Actually it doesn't do everything I could ever need which leads me to a
>> serious qyestion :
>> Did/does any spreadsheet, on any platform, allow you to put complex
>> numbers in the cells and operate on them?
>> Yes, of course you can treat a complex numner as 2 real numbers and
>> define the appropriate operations -- any spreadsheet will do that. I
did
>> it in Visicalc. But as I use complex numbers
a lot in AC circuit
>> analysis, and I know others who do too, I am suprised no spreadsheet
>> handles them as well as my HP calculators.
>
>
> I'm far from expert - I don't even know how to get Excel to TELL ME
which
> numbers are float, which cells (particularly
floats) are calculated
> fron other floats, or even which have been rounded.
>
> I have used Visicalc, Lotus, and Excel for a number of "off-label" uses,
> such as small flat-file databases, etc. A lot of my CGA and MDA
monitors
had burnt-in
"Lotus L"s.
It is amazingly versatile, but certainly NOT "everything that you could
ever need"
OK, I defer. I was not aware of anything 1-2-3 could do that Excel
could not, but hey, apparently there is. I was wrong. Sorry.
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