Re: MS Excel Working As Designed

On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 14:37:58 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:

On 1/19/25 2:32 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 05:58:00 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:
 

I remember those days. I don't recall Windows having anything built-in
to let you connect to the Internet. You could connect to a BBS using
HyperTerminal, I believe, but that's about it. Unless the Internet
service allowed you shell access, there was nothing there for you.

 
Back when the MSDN subscription included a book of DVDs for all flavors
of Windows I upgraded to Windows for Workgroups 3.11. The machine
itself was interesting.
 
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/22981/Compaq-Concerto-2840A/
 
I don't think it was in production for more than a year. The world
wasn't ready for it. My neighbor worked in a computer store and said
"You've got to see what we just got in." iirc I forked over $1500 and
took it with me.

 
Which would be something like $3,000 in today's money. It looks pretty
nice, but I imagine that display didn't last long.

I didn't have a problem with the display. I wonder if it will still boot?

Considering the $1800 Osborne 1 CP/M 'portable' would be $5800 today it
was a steal. Eveb relative to the laptops of the day it wasn't expensive.
The IBM Thinkpads came out around that time and were pricier.

A desktop would have been cheaper but my day job for part of the year was
driving a truck. I'd take the winters off and go to southern AZ where I
had a minimal solar setup so power was a consideration. The Pen Computing
did work but I didn't use it often.