Path: ...!news.roellig-ltd.de!open-news-network.org!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: The enduring appeal of Microsoft Excel Date: 29 Oct 2024 15:54:31 GMT Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net jVFmWVYqHZmzDLdPR5pjLwx01VLCqZwIbyRFHPnUSnkNHpq3+i Cancel-Lock: sha1:blf7q/GGCknRtbnAyh2rTdo5RBw= sha256:QpclNw+LMSXIUEA8qQeJvlZ76VCpEa+sgdd5ingf+ro= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Bytes: 1869 On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 09:11:33 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote: > My first experience with a word processor or a spreadsheet program was > with Microsoft Works 2.0 which came with my IBM PS/1 in 1991. I barely > used either but they were nice to have. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1 The 1981 Osborne 1 came with Wordstar and SuperCalc. Wordstar wasn't the greatest programming editor but it worked. I never used SuperCalc. It dod have vi but vi wasn't the greatest editor. Vim was 10 years in the future. I can't remember if mine had dBase II. At the time when I went to a client's site they might have anything from a Commodore PET to a PDP-11 timeshare with a grab bag of editors, compilers, and assemblers. With the 'portable' Osborne I could bring my environment with me. Later I bought a couple of the infamous Osborne Executives that the Boston Globe was selling as they moved to PCs. They were a business school lesson in not announcing next generation vaporware that kills your current sales.