S20/20 - anyone heard of it?

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2009/12/24 Cybe R. Wizard <cyber_wizard at mindspring.com>:
> 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.

They must have been porting it then, since I've never been near a
VAX/VMS computer. I know that some of the people I chatted with those
days were on VAX/VMS, but I was using Unix by that time. That's one of
the reasons that I am using Linux today. I felt at home immediately
when I opened the terminal first time in Ubuntu, even though some
things had changed since the Unix days.

Johnny Rosenberg


>
> Cybe R. Wizard
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