🪨🛠️ New Post: "VisiCalc on the Apple 2"

Happy #SpreadsheetDay! This time I look at #visicalc, the first spreadsheet. Though I have a good deal of personal experience with it, I've never looked at it with a critical eye. How much of its DNA still exists in the software of today? I try to answer that by calculating protein levels of ration formulation for swine, as one does. Special guest appearance by your favorite grain: sorghum!

#RetroComputing #spreadsheet #apple2

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VisiCalc on the Apple II

In 1978, Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston took out a loan to fund development of "Calcu-ledger," the very tool that could project if taking out a loan were fiscally prudent.

^{Christopher Drum (Stone Tools)}

Excel doesn’t have to be the default.

With robust performance, excellent compatibility, and an ever-growing list of powerful features, Collabora Online Calc is a true open-source alternative.

Find out more about your next favourite spreadsheet solution.
🔗 collaboraonline.com/blog/why-c…

#CollaboraOnline #Calc #OpenSource #Spreadsheet

Excel doesn’t have to be the default.

With robust performance, excellent compatibility, and an ever-growing list of powerful features, Collabora Online Calc is a true open-source alternative.

🔗 Find out more about your next favourite spreadsheet solution: collaboraonline.com/blog/why-c…

#CollaboraOnline #Calc #OpenSource #Spreadsheet

Hello, #fediverse

Does anyone know a #spreadsheet alternative to Google Sheets that is cloud based and anyone can see with a link?

Did some light searching, but no idea what's good or not. Lol.

I like it so much.

If the software development was done in a right way we'd end with the most often used tools which don't have a reason to get new features anymore (text editors, spreadsheets, file managers) rewritten in the most efficient way possible. Like, idk, in C with hot path in assembly (or in Rust for security-critcal parts) with tiny memory footprint on 90% trivial cases, milliseconds to first user input etc.
In fact we have exact the opposite - asm in the office apps was absolutely normal in the 90x and I can't imagine anyone doing this nowadays, memory footprint of an empty spreadsheet is 200MB and it takes 5sec. to load with cold cache on a 3Ghz 4 cores with 16G ram with SSD. And the most items in the changelog are about fixing compatibility with some proprietary crap (in FOSS) or adding AI, moving to subscription model or even more telemetry in non-free.
#assembly #foss #spreadsheet

Weird question about Microsoft Excel

So I have been wanting to learn more about how to use Microsoft Excel so I can teach other people about some of the more advanced programming techniques. But then I really do not want to burn up all of that disk space just to run Wine and Excel.

So I got to thinking:

1. is there an older version of Microsoft Excel I could use instead?
2. The “ribbon” UI/UX asside, how far back in time (in Excel software versions) would I have to go before the formula language and cell computation engine became too different from the most recent Excel that it would not be very useful for me as a learning/teaching tool?
3. Would it take less disk space to run this in a minimal Windows NT 2000 or Windows XP instance on QEMU than it would take on Wine?

#Excel #MicrosoftExcel #MSExcel #Spreadsheet #software #tech #Linux #LinuxWine #QEMU #Emulation #WindowsXP #WindowsNT #RetroComputing

These are all the relevant, native office apps for Linux. I installed them all to test and show them here. Some of them aren't maintained anymore (e.g. a few Calligra apps, Glom etc), but most are still applicable. If you're considering a move to Linux, you should be able to find what you're looking for among them, and among the various online web offerings.

#office #msoffice #linux #opensource #foss #spreadsheet #database

Magic Eye Images In Your Spreadsheet

#computerhacks #excel #magiceye #spreadsheet #hackaday
posted by pod_feeder_v2

🟠 IronCalc

The democratization of spreadsheets

Empowering Everyone with Advanced, #OpenSource #Spreadsheet Solutions

MIT/Apache 2.0 licensed

ironcalc.com/ on of spreadsheets

It’s Spreadsheets All The Way Down for This 80s Handheld

#retrocomputing #80s #cassette #convergent #lcd #modem #programming #spreadsheet #turingincomplete #workslate #hackaday
posted by pod_feeder_v2

NocoDB 📑

The #OpenSource #Airtable Alternative
Turns any #MySQL, #PostgreSQL, #SQLServer, #SQLite & #MariaDB into a smart #spreadsheet

github.com/nocodb/nocodb

In case you are one of those people who use a #spreadsheet where clearly #databases need to be used, this is an article for you to read

For the rest of us it's funny articles like this which are educational & humourous

#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #100DaysOfCode #Linux #POSIX #Programming #dBASE #PostgreSQL #mariaDB #mongoDB

ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will…

Hackaday Links: August 18, 2024

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posted by pod_feeder_v2

VisiCalc for the Apple II computer was the first spreadsheet program. It turned 8-bit microcomputers from toys into serious business tools, and it ruled the spreadsheet market from 1979 to 1983 when Lotus introduced 1-2-3.

But if there's VisiCalc, is there also OstroCalc?

#AppleII #VisiCalc #spreadsheet #visigoths #retrocomputing

using excel for sms...

#musicvideo #nelly #spreadsheet #sms #texting #incorrect #vidcap #animatedgif

* Please boost *

Which office suite(s) do you use at least once a week? (in a typical week)

Please only answer the poll *if* you use #office software, such as #wordprocessor, #spreadsheet #presentation software, etc.

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#LibreOffice #MSOffice #MicrosoftOffice #GoogleDocs #CalligraSuite #Calligra #FreeOffice #SoftmakerOffice #Gnumeric #CollaboraOffice #CollaboraOnline #OpenOffice #OnlyOffice #Microsoft365 #WordPerfectOffice #WPSOffice #iWork #Windows #Linux #macOS #Android #iOS

• LibreOffice (65%, 84 votes)
• Microsoft Office (34%, 44 votes)
• Google Docs (28%, 37 votes)
• Other (please reply and explain) (6%, 8 votes)

Just published a new article in my #selfhosted alternatives series focused on viable replacements for #Airtable:

selfh.st/alternatives/airtable…

As usual, let me know if I missed anything or if you have any feedback on the article/series!

#selfhost #selfhosting #alternative #database #spreadsheet #software #saas

Self-Hosting Guide to Alternatives: Airtable

Self-hosted alternatives for the popular relational database platform

^{Ethan Sholly (selfh.st)}

I had a sudden "what if…?" intuition for a potential #productivity speedup in my #opensource bug reporting workflow when tables of data are involved, and… it turns out that it is actually possible.

As you can see in this short demonstration I recorded below, you can paste #LibreOffice #spreadsheet cells into a #GitLab ticket, and it automatically converts it to a proper #MarkDown table. It just works! What is this sorcery!? 🤯 What a time to be alive.