jyouells2000 wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> new.morning wrote: >> >>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jyouells2000" <jyouells@> >>> > wrote: > >>> >>> >>>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" >>>>>>>> <j_alexander_stanley@> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> <snip> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Besides, this PC is only 3 years old, and its 2.8GHz P4 >>>>>>>>> is overkill for what I do. A couple years from now, >>>>>>>>> everything will be multiple cores up the wazoo and fully >>>>>>>>> capable of running the most bloated of bloatware. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Exactly. v1.0 is never a good deal. Hey remember 640K max >>>>>>>> RAM for DOS with a 4.77MHz processor speed? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> With two 5 1/4 360K floppy drives and no hard drive? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I earned my living for two years with wunna dose. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> Didn't have 640K RAM, either. It was 5-something-- >>>>>> can't remember what, 525 sticks in my mind, but that >>>>>> can't be right, can it? DOS 2, I think. Monochrome >>>>>> monitor, of course. >>>>>> >>>>>> And a 1200-baud modem. Oh, the thrill when I upgraded >>>>>> to a 2400-baud! >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> DOS 2? *Two* floppy drives? 1200 baud? >>>>> >>>>> You were a latecomer to personal computing. I'd >>>>> guess that a few of the folks here beside myself >>>>> remember CP/M and 300 baud modems. >>>>> >>>>> Or even further back, dumb teletype terminals, >>>>> with no monitor. It was basically like a typewriter, >>>>> communicating with a mainframe somewhere at 300 baud, >>>>> printing out both what you typed and what came back >>>>> from the host on rolls of paper. >>>>> >>>>> Oh, the good old days... :-) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I do, Barry but I didn't want do date myself. Kaypro or how about an >>>> Ohio Scientific Challenger... >>>> >>>> JohnY >>>> >>>> >>> Cammodore 64, bought off the rack at price club. It had a heavy spread >>> sheet program! >>> >> If it was Excel then a friend ported it to the C64 when he was at >> > Microsoft. > > > The 2 other players in that market at the time were Multiplan and > SuperCalc, I think, but I can't remember the one on the C64 (not C64 > with the CP/M Z80 cart). What did the Apple II have? > > JohnY It might have been called Multiplan and not Excel. SuperCalc was by another company and very popular. Visacalc was the Apple II product.
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