Console Spreadsheets

Posted by laktak on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:06AM
from the lock.cmpxchg8b.com dept.

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/spreadsheet.html

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Re:Console Spreadsheets by rchase on Saturday November 28, 2020 @10:08AM (#25237951)

I learned spreadsheeting in Lotus 1-2-3 on DOS in the early '90s. It is so fast and super powerful. I still use the 1-2-3 keystrokes in Excel to this day (an option that I'm both infinitely pleased and super shocked still exists, Microsoft actually did something right!)

If anyone out there knows how to obtain Lotus and get it running in Linux, please please let me know!

Because, not to put too fine a point on it, sc, sc-im and oleo are completely useless without months of self-training, and even then... meh.

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Re:Console Spreadsheets by andrewmackrodt on Sunday November 29, 2020 @02:22PM (#25247302)

If you no longer have the ability to read your floppies or CD-ROMs you can find them on archive.org fairly easily. I'd imagine the DOS version would run in DOSBox fairly easily. For the Windows version, wine is reported to work https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio....

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Re:Console Spreadsheets by d0mine on Saturday November 28, 2020 @05:54PM (#25241258)

Emacs (Org mode) supports spreadsheets. https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/#Spreadsheet

It is so convenient that there is orgtbl-mode which allows Org tables even outside Org files https://youtu.be/EQAd41VAXWo

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Re:Console Spreadsheets by camgunz on Friday November 27, 2020 @03:40PM (#25232390)

I've been using sc-im for a few months, and I like it a lot. It crashes here and there (not wonderful) so I wish it were a little more robust, but it doesn't corrupt your files when it does so it's just some work lost (save early, save often). But otherwise, it's powerful and ergonomic for Vim users, so checks all my boxes haha.

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Re:Console Spreadsheets by bobbydreamer on Saturday November 28, 2020 @11:31PM (#25242927)

Looking at terminal applications.

I remember my dad used to say FoxPro was the best in DOS after Visual FoxPro it didn't pick up. Large applications could be built simply in FoxPro and perfomance was really good.

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Re:Console Spreadsheets by wenc on Friday November 27, 2020 @04:36PM (#25232782)

Quattro Pro for DOS was an amazing spreadsheet tool, better than 1-2-3 IMO. Looks like this article arrived at the same conclusion.

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Re:Console Spreadsheets by cdaringe on Saturday November 28, 2020 @01:05PM (#25239194)

Great dataset ;) the next spreadsheets should yield factory productivity datas

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Re:Console Spreadsheets by bdcravens on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:08PM (#25233785)

Wordperfect (5?) and Lotus 1-2-3 were the first real computer programs I learned.

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Re:Console Spreadsheets by karmakaze on Friday November 27, 2020 @12:02PM (#25230373)

It's missing VisiCalc. Perhaps it only considers those running on x86.

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Re:Console Spreadsheets by ilaksh on Saturday November 28, 2020 @03:04AM (#25236108)

Interestingly Dab Bricklin the creator of VisiCalc built a web based spreadsheet called SocialCalc which was then eventually evolved into EtherCalc.

To download and emulate VisiCalc: http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm

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Re:Console Spreadsheets by CTOSian on Sunday November 29, 2020 @08:01AM (#25244901)

there is also As-Easy-As (DOS) was shareware till its author released as freeware..

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