I'm obsessed with that Siemens HighPrint 7400 manual cover.
I want her to tie me up and do bad things to me while berating me in a German accent
To be fair... HELL YEAH
Lotus 1-2-3 arbitrary resolution
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Re: Lotus 1-2-3 arbitrary resolution
#22This is freaking awesome! I mostly stick to GUI era software, and find Word 97 to be amazing for writing. I run it inside a VM rather than using Wine.
Word97 has actually run perfectly in Wine since 1998-1999. I tested it back then and it worked perfectly.
That's good to know. It just feels more "at home" inside a VM I already use for accessibility and compatibility testing anyway (IE3+ for my sites), and it starts up faster than with Wine for me.
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#23You had me at 'a boxed copy of the last DOS version released, version 4!'
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#24very interesting software archeology!
Really it does feel like archeology. When does this person get admitted to the department? :)
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#25A bit off topic, but what I've wanted forever and never found is a spreadsheet that deals in units natively. So if one cell is in Newtons and I divide it by a cell that is in m/s^2 I want the resulting cell to be in grams. Units should propagate through the sheet automatically. Unit prefixes can either be automatic (km, m, mm, um, etc) or fixed as you would with a format setting. Google calculator is the closest thin…
There's this: http://www.dimensionengine.com/excel/DEAddIn/
Their description sounds a lot like yours.
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#26Fascinating, I was a kid but just old enough to remember trying out this kind of DOS software and reading Norton's book as well.
However, I wonder if all this work could contribute to a "modern" terminal floss office suite. There are a number of projects, but they are scattered:
Re: Lotus 1-2-3 arbitrary resolution
#27On the DOS post on Lotus from Taviso, maybe he would like
Groff + Mom + a Makefile entr watching for the file changes (and running make) with MuPDF refreshing the content automatically.
Far lighter than LaTeX, and almost as user-friendly as the old word processors.
Re: Lotus 1-2-3 arbitrary resolution
#28A bit off topic, but what I've wanted forever and never found is a spreadsheet that deals in units natively. So if one cell is in Newtons and I divide it by a cell that is in m/s^2 I want the resulting cell to be in grams. Units should propagate through the sheet automatically. Unit prefixes can either be automatic (km, m, mm, um, etc) or fixed as you would with a format setting. Google calculator is the closest thin…
This is one of the first uses C++ templates had way back in the early 90s IIRC.
Re: Lotus 1-2-3 arbitrary resolution
#29Amazing story.
Can't believe the Lotus FTP site is still live. Wonder where that thing is running and if anyone actually knows it still is.
> I was able to find the drivers on an old ftp site.
Wonder what FTP site this is and how he found it?
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Word97 has actually run perfectly in Wine since 1998-1999. I tested it back then and it worked perfectly.
That's good to know. It just feels more "at home" inside a VM I already use for accessibility and compatibility testing anyway (IE3+ for my sites), and it starts up faster than with Wine for me.
This is waaaay off topic, but you've piqued my interest -- what on earth are you still testing with IE3 for?