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Borland Quattro Pro Spreadsheet 40+ years ago.. Great keyboard recorder language! Edit to branch, compare, move entries, auto mixing randomly placed consecuti
by catMotors 1y ago
Borland Quattro Pro Spreadsheet
40+ years ago..
Great keyboard recorder language! Edit to branch, compare, move entries, auto mixing
randomly placed consecutive primes in a matrix array, where sums on columns, or products on columns, so all columns would become semi-equal, I recall often surprising difference plus/minus 1 for sums. Like the 1st pass of a magic square.
It was fun to make, and fun to watch, much slower back then.
- JKCalhoun 1y agoForgotten: WingZ [1]. In an era when they were trying to combine spreadsheet + charts + database + who-the-hell-knows-what-else. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informix_Wingz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informix_Wingz
- buescher 1y agoWingz, in its brief era, was really nice. In-sheet graphics before Excel had them, and more intuitive too.
- satisfice 1y agoI loved Quattro Pro. Version 1 was very good.
- Tor3 1y agoTurbo Pascal started to ship with an example spreadsheet program, as source. A co-worker took that source and ported it to a version of Pascal running on VAX/VMS. After that you could often see a VT-100 with a spreadsheet running, in his office.