I also have a lot of experience with binary, octal & hex, both from
my own personal computer and many years experience with computer
hardware at work. I used to hand assemble code for my Imsai and also
worked on mini-computers at the microcode (that's the stuff inside the
CPU) level.
noranross wrote:
Hi Jon
I'm with you in Binary hex and octal from my first commercial computer
for communications.
I am a new user of Open Office and find it incredible and wont use M$
on principle. Oxygen Open Office has a few extra bits especially in
Calc which I use a lot of. It is also free and easily downloadable.
Highly recommend Open office to everyone.
Ross Elliott
Jon Murphy wrote:
I have had an Open Office icon in my tray for some time, but I don't
know how it got there. I suspect it was when I had a crash and a
local vendor "ghosted" my old drive as well as some of his own drive
(a problem with the SATA made him use some of his loads). I have just
explored it for the first time tonight.
My brief exploration indicates that this is a useful form of text
originator, and perhaps might even allow me the equations I need to
use for a book I'm writing. Is Open Office a full substitute for MS
notepad, wordpad and the purchasable Word? I love open source, and in
my younger days as a former Assembler programmer would have had some
contributions to make. Here's to Tim Berners-Lee and to hell with
Bill Gates.
I sometimes get messages from the newly empowered in Power Point
format, I can't read them. If I make Open Office my default will I be
better able to handle the various formats (don't really need the
Power Point, don't need to talk to the arrogant who assume all can
afford what they have).
I guess my question is basic, should I forget the proprietary
products and use Open Office - and what can I use it for?
Best, Jon
Jonathan W. Murphy
Englishtown, NJ
(long retired computer consultant, data communications in the days
when I had to write my own assembler interfaces and one who still
speaks binary, octal and hex - gee, I wish I could handle these
"easy" interfaces that are laid layer on layer on the BIOS). jwm
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