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Yep... there wasn't enough code or RAM to do anything fancy. If you had a spreadsheet of any real complexity (i.e. much more than a screen worth) it was not un
by blihp 5y ago
Yep... there wasn't enough code or RAM to do anything fancy. If you had a spreadsheet of any real complexity (i.e. much more than a screen worth) it was not unusual to disable auto recalc as things got painful fast on a 1MHz 8-bit CPU.
None of this was really an issue for early adopters whose primary alternative was typically paper, pencil, a [pocket|desk] calculator and a whole lot of writing.
- ngcc_hk 5y ago100% remember that one. Still got a habit of checking refresh or not … silly these days but so natural then. Wordstar, visicalc and dBase II (need z80 and 80 column card to really use them). The office suite begins here. Still remember to work with one senior user to debug her spreadsheet program (may be 123). No fun at all. In fact we said end user programming is not part of the scope of work. But the word “senior” meant something I supposed :-) :-(.