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I’m too young for Lotus 1-2-3. Or at least, I should have been. I worked at a factory in 2011 that still used Lotus on their ancient dinosaur because why fix w
by KMnO4 3y ago
I’m too young for Lotus 1-2-3. Or at least, I should have been.
I worked at a factory in 2011 that still used Lotus on their ancient dinosaur because why fix what wasn’t broken? The task was mostly just to record the values measured from a QC device in a spreadsheet, and print out a report for each batch. Since the computer didn’t have USB, printing involved saving the PDF to a floppy disk, running it across the factory to the printer, and inserting it into a USB-Floppy reader connected directly to the modern office printer.
Honestly, I was really impressed by how functional Lotus was for such old software. The majority of tasks I was used to in modern Excel were doable in 1-2-3, and it could even do several things that still aren’t possible on Google Sheets.
- aleph_minus_one 3y ago> The majority of tasks I was used to in modern Excel were doable in 1-2-3 Work for a few years in the finance or insurance industry, and this opinion of yours will likely change: people in these industries have a tendency to (ab)use functionalities of modern Excel a lot. :-)
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoSo that's another point in favor of 1-2-3;)
- chasil 3y agoIIRC, Excel implemented the 1-2-3 keyboard menu for a time. The Windows port of 1-2-3 certainly did.
- bombcar 3y agoFor a very long time - whatever last version of Excel had it, there were a number of users who would refuse to ever move off it.
- gadders 3y agoStill in 2016. You can check your version by pressing the "/" key and seeing if letters appear over menu items.
- chasil 3y agoOh my, the current Excel in Office 365 still implements this.