S20/20 - anyone heard of it?

[Tony Arnold]

Cybe,

Cybe R. Wizard 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.

That document has the exact same look and feel for all the OpenVMS
documentation set (it consisted of a large number of 3.5" ring binders
and occupied about 20 feet of shelf space!). Whatever happened to
printed documentation?

DEC had a program called DECdocument (I think) which could be used for
formatting manuals.

Thanks for the nostalgia trip guys!

Regards,
Tony.
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