S20/20 - anyone heard of it?

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:20:06 -0600
"Cybe R. Wizard" <cyber_wizard at mindspring.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:46:48 +0100
> Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > At school at the end of the 1980's we had a Unix multiuser system
> > with a lot of terminals in a few rooms. The software installed was
> > Emacs (for text editing, MUD, IRC etc), WordMarc Composer + (word
> > processor), Talk (chat program) and you name it. There was also a
> > spreadsheet program called S20/20.
> > I have Ubuntu 8.10 on this machine and Ubuntu 9.10 on my Eee PC. On
> > this one (Ubuntu 8.10) I have Emacs and I know that I'm not the only
> > one that remembers WordMarc Composer +, but no one seems to remember
> > the spreadsheet program S20/20!
> > It was text based and very simple. I used it a couple of times only
> > so I don't know how much of its features I didn't use…
> > 
> > But am I the only one that even heard of this program? I found
> > nothing with Google.
> > 
> > 
> > Johnny Rosenberg
> > 
> Did you go to school in Ohio?  I found this:
> http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:IkKiIb0OILMJ:pdf.ssdt.oecn.k12.oh.us/ssdtpdf/2020_BEG_TRAINING_MANUAL.PDF+access+s20/20+spreadsheet&hl=en&gl=us&sig=AHIEtbRitmUTvwCVLN4ehQVyDeurH4fJsg
> 
> when googlng for "access 20/20 spreadsheet"
> Googling  for, "s20/20 spreadsheet," suggested the, "access," part.
> It seems to be pretty old.
> 
> Cybe

The wikipedia article on spreadsheets (list of) suggested this page:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SMG/is_n8_v10/ai_8576726/
which confirms that it is quite old and for VAX/VMS computers.

Cybe R. Wizard
-- 
When Windows are opened the bugs come in.
	Winduhs