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MathCAD? TK!Solver?

by jdougan 1y ago

MathCAD? TK!Solver?

homarp 1y ago
Maple?
- doodlebugging 1y ago
  No it wasn't Maple. I'm familiar with Maple. I found it by following ads in MacWorld magazine back in the day. It should be identifiable by checking issues between December 1984 and May 1987.
  - homarp 1y ago
    https://archive.org/details/macworld-magazine https://archive.org/details/macworld-magazine has the scans
    - doodlebugging 1y ago
      Thanks. I'll dig through and see what I can find or dig through my disk archive.
      - homarp 1y ago
        https://www.macintoshrepository.org/37630-eureka-the-solver https://www.macintoshrepository.org/37630-eureka-the-solver has a .sit The author's page: http://www.spinstop.com/roger/eureka.htm http://www.spinstop.com/roger/eureka.htm
    - doodlebugging 1y ago
      Thank you for the link. I'm pretty sure I found it in the Internet Archive's issues of MacWorld from back in the day. On page 9 (10 in the archive) of the April 1988 issue there is an advert for Eureka: The Solver by Borland International (Of course! They had such excellent software for years.) There is a writeup about it on pages 191-192 (pages 192-193 in the archive). One of the tools available is a polynomial finder. That is the tool that I used. I will look around to see whether I still have the disk. I also found my favorite, and first computer game since it was my first computer. Silicon Beach Software put out a game called Airborne! in 1984. I got the Mac in January 1985 and bought that game with it. Fun stuff! Thanks for the help.
doodlebugging 1y ago
I should still have my MathCAD disks somewhere. That wasn't the application though. I recognize TK!Solver too but I don't think it was that software. I may need to scan old MacWorld magazine images to find it.
doodlebugging 1y ago
I just went through the Internet Archive's issues of MacWorld from back in the day and think I found the software. On page 9 (10 in the archive) of the April 1988 issue there is an advert for Eureka: The Solver by Borland International (Of course! They had such excellent software for years.) There is a writeup about it on pages 191-192 (pages 192-193 in the archive). One of the tools available is a polynomial finder. That is the tool that I used. I will look around to see whether I still have the disk.

MathCAD? TK!Solver?

homarp 1y ago

Maple?

doodlebugging 1y ago
No it wasn't Maple. I'm familiar with Maple. I found it by following ads in MacWorld magazine back in the day. It should be identifiable by checking issues between December 1984 and May 1987.
- homarp 1y ago
  https://archive.org/details/macworld-magazine https://archive.org/details/macworld-magazine has the scans
  - doodlebugging 1y ago
    Thanks. I'll dig through and see what I can find or dig through my disk archive.
    - homarp 1y ago
      https://www.macintoshrepository.org/37630-eureka-the-solver https://www.macintoshrepository.org/37630-eureka-the-solver has a .sit The author's page: http://www.spinstop.com/roger/eureka.htm http://www.spinstop.com/roger/eureka.htm
  - doodlebugging 1y ago
    Thank you for the link. I'm pretty sure I found it in the Internet Archive's issues of MacWorld from back in the day. On page 9 (10 in the archive) of the April 1988 issue there is an advert for Eureka: The Solver by Borland International (Of course! They had such excellent software for years.) There is a writeup about it on pages 191-192 (pages 192-193 in the archive). One of the tools available is a polynomial finder. That is the tool that I used. I will look around to see whether I still have the disk. I also found my favorite, and first computer game since it was my first computer. Silicon Beach Software put out a game called Airborne! in 1984. I got the Mac in January 1985 and bought that game with it. Fun stuff! Thanks for the help.

doodlebugging 1y ago

I should still have my MathCAD disks somewhere. That wasn't the application though. I recognize TK!Solver too but I don't think it was that software. I may need to scan old MacWorld magazine images to find it.

doodlebugging 1y ago

I just went through the Internet Archive's issues of MacWorld from back in the day and think I found the software. On page 9 (10 in the archive) of the April 1988 issue there is an advert for Eureka: The Solver by Borland International (Of course! They had such excellent software for years.) There is a writeup about it on pages 191-192 (pages 192-193 in the archive). One of the tools available is a polynomial finder. That is the tool that I used. I will look around to see whether I still have the disk.