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Article #39488Re: low-budget spreadsheet - summary of responses
From: Ephraim Vishniac
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1989 11:37
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1989 11:37
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In article <37578@think.UUCP> ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac) writes: >In article <DAVIDL.89Mar15090405@intelob.intel.com> davidl@intelob.intel.com (David Levine) writes: >>Quote without comment: > >>"According to Chris Espinoza, advanced technology marketing manager, >>five-year old Macintosh applications software not only still operates... >>"As a demonstration, Espinoza took his own copy of Microsoft MultiPlan >>(purchased in spring 1984)... >Well, here are *my* comments. I don't believe this for several >reasons. [reasons cited include copy-protection, brain-damage, personal experience] >But I'm open-minded. When I get home tonight, I'll go through my >files and find my oldest Multiplan key disk (circa January 1985). >Maybe it works better than the "current" version. Or maybe the demo >was rigged... Well, figure this. I tried it and it worked. That is, Multiplan 1.02, dated May 1984, works smoothly on my two-monitor color Mac II with virtual memory under System 6.0.2. Multiplan 1.11 dies a horrible death and is useless. Maybe I should call MS Tech Support and point out this workaround for their compatibility problem! Do I need inews fodder? Are there enough follow-up lines? Maybe. Maybe not. I'll add more. OK? Ephraim Vishniac / Internet: ephraim@think.com / AppleLink: ThinkingCorp Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142-1214 "Arlo Guthrie, it seems, has found what he was looking for: God, and the Macintosh." (Boston Globe)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!decvax!ima!think!ephraim From: ephraim@think.COM (Ephraim Vishniac) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: low-budget spreadsheet - summary of responses Message-ID: <37604@think.UUCP> Date: 17 Mar 89 11:37:39 GMT References: <37120@think.UUCP> <11010050@hpfcdc.HP.COM> <DAVIDL.89Mar15090405@intelob.intel.com> <37578@think.UUCP> Sender: news@think.UUCP Reply-To: ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac) Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA Lines: 42