MultiPlan???

Post #46,076 by Andrew Grygus 7/19/02 11:16:05 AM Reply	MultiPlan??? The spreadsheet that took four times as many keystrokes as any other to do anything? That thing was an absolute horror. Personally, I'm still using SuperCalc3. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #46,100 by CRConrad 7/19/02 3:23:46 PM Reply	MultiPlan was a huge freaking revelation to me. First semester at university, the second or third course I took was Bizniss Administraychun; they introduced us to something called a "spreadsheet", which I fell pretty much in love with. That spreadsheet was MultiPlan, "for DOS", I assume -- can't be quite sure, 'coz the machines we ran it on were (as often happened in those days) not-quite-compatible "almost-PCs" from, IIRC, Wang. Two reflections on MultiPlan: 1: If BA had been the first subject where I met computers, that might well have been what I later specialized in; thank the GRR the first was Statistics, so I wasn't imprinted, duckling-like, on MultiPlan but on MiniTab (a statistical package [cum-{crude-}programming-language]). 2: Does Excel still do that "C1R2" thing for absolute references, and "[C-1][R-2]" for relative? I know it did up until at least version 5, and given M$' fetish for backwards compatibility, probably later too... And that still seems so much more logical to me than the damn stupid Artoo-Detoo system they copied (I assume?) from Lotus. Christian R. Conrad Microsoft is a true reflection of Bill Gates' personality - the sleaziest, most unethical, ugliest little rat's ass the world has seen unto this time. -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=42971\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #46,169 by altmann 7/19/02 10:16:31 PM Reply	Yup (R1C1) From the Excel 2002 help file: You can also use a reference style where both the rows and the columns on the worksheet are numbered. The R1C1 reference style is useful for computing row and column positions in macros. In the R1C1 style, Excel indicates the location of a cell with an "R" followed by a row number and a "C" followed by a column number. Reference Meaning R[-2]C A relative reference to the cell two rows up and in the same column R[2]C[2] A relative reference to the cell two rows down and two columns to the right R2C2 An absolute reference to the cell in the second row and in the second column R[-1] A relative reference to the entire row above the active cell R An absolute reference to the current row When you record a macro, Excel records some commands by using the R1C1 reference style. For example, if you record a command such as clicking the AutoSum button to insert a formula that adds a range of cells, Excel records the formula by using R1C1 style, not A1 style, references. To turn R1C1 reference style on or off Click Options on the Tools menu, and then click the General tab. Under Settings, select or clear the R1C1 reference style check box. -- Chris Altmann
Post #46,269 by dmarker2 7/21/02 5:07:15 AM Reply	Re: MultiPlan was a great product on Xenix My first experience with spreadsheets was some software running on an IBM mainframe that rented for 12,000 per month back in the early 1970s. iPlan interactive - or some such name. Years later it was visicalc then multiplan running on Xenix & that was a terrific program. The damned thing could be invoked for multiple concurrent sessions. It could pass parameters between sessions etc: etc:. But Bill killed it when he realised that he couldn't get as much moola from Xenix as he was getting from DOS. Maybe on DOS multiplan was not as nice. Cheers Doug
Post #46,160 by folkert 7/19/02 9:31:11 PM Reply	Dang,,,, I started on SuperCalc(v1 if I recall never really had a version #) on a Tandy 2000, one of the (maybe the only) "Made it to Market" 80186 computers. DOS...hmmm v?? dunno was late '87 though, prolly 2.?. Was the first Computer I had, that had a real (16) COLOR DISPLAY!!!! This one was really great... it had XENIX on the 10MB hard drive and I used floppies to boot into DOS and ran SC from a 360K disk... a second one for the print engine... Never really used the XENIX... didn't like it at the time... ended up using debug 0800:70 (I believe) to start the low-level format from the controller, and installed DOS on the HD. (BONKS SELF in HEAD) didn;t know what I had. The stuff I used to do with that... WOW... sales report graphs for a few local companies... all being plotted out on a time-shared E size 16 pen 102"/sec plotter I had access to... Man brings back some memories. Shoot can't remember the CAD package I had then too... it ran on 4 - 360K floppies... Then I DISCOVERED BBSing... and it has been ALL down hill from there. The one thing I remember about that T2000... I needed a forklift to move it anywhere... `greg, curley95@attbi.com -- REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!`
Post #46,216 by a6l6e6x 7/20/02 11:59:58 AM Reply	Re: the CAD package. Generic CAD? I still have diskettes. Alex "Television: chewing gum for the eyes." -- Frank Lloyd Wright

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