haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) (07/18/88)
More obscure software time ... Thanks to everyone who helped with the CP/M C compiler, now you get to go find a spreadsheet for a different antique ... We have a Microdata system of some variety and are now looking for a spreadsheet of some variety for it. The machine runs the PICK operating system and has DATA/BASIC as its only high level language. If you can point me to a source for a commercial spreadsheet, or if you know of a place to find BASIC source for a spreadsheet, drop me a line. - John. -- John "Evil USENET User" F. Haugh II HECI Exploration Co, Inc., Dallas UUCP: ...!killer!rpp386!jfh jfh@rpp386.UUCP :DOMAIN **** Trivia question of the day: VYARZERZIMANIMORORSEZASSEZANSERAREORSES? **** "You are in a twisty little maze of UUCP connections, all alike" -- fortune
jt@edge.UUCP (J.T. McDuffie) (07/26/88)
In response to your search for a spreadsheet program for Pick OS systems, you might like to try ComputSheet+, by Interactive Systems, 635 Southpoint Court, Suite 110, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80906, (303) 579-6800. Ask for John Brandon. Interactive offers their spreadsheet, one of the very few available for Pick systems, for almost all systems running the Pick OS. It has a lot going for it, BUT... the Pick system was *NOT* designed to perform number crunching, and *ANY* spreadsheet program on *ANY* Pick system will be *SLOW* when compared to even an old Apple and, say, VisiCalc. My personal opinion is thay if you can get by using cheap PC clones instead, you'd be better off. PC's can be used as terminals, word processors, spreadsheet crunchers, etc., etc., etc. A Pick (or Microdata) system can handle any business data base problem very well, but does not handle chores such as word processing, spreadsheets, etc. anywhere near as well. JT McDuffie (Standard Disclamer: The above are my own and not those of my employer)