Post Av8DYj5rxJIIFeTLtY by whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz
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(DIR) Post #Av8CodJX703B0OsuP2 by foone@digipres.club
2025-06-14T19:53:17Z
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I checked out the new SF bay area MicroCenter and discovered you can still buy a boxed copy of WordPerfect.Sometimes it's good to see something that hasn't changed in 46 years of computing history.
(DIR) Post #Av8DIylvtbQOFBdeJk by foone@digipres.club
2025-06-14T19:58:51Z
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@pecet they bought it in 1996, after Novell bought it in 1994
(DIR) Post #Av8DM2qnBmCrlHNDGq by foone@digipres.club
2025-06-14T19:59:23Z
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@ehurtley YEP!
(DIR) Post #Av8DYj5rxJIIFeTLtY by whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz
2025-06-14T20:01:38Z
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@foone There might as well be a sticker on there that says "For OG lawyers!"
(DIR) Post #Av8DbGqPRUoBVSSEjY by Starcade@sfba.social
2025-06-14T20:01:41Z
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@foone What I trained on in school 🙂
(DIR) Post #Av8DdvekfwWWf5GkyG by typhon@piaille.fr
2025-06-14T20:01:52Z
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@foone Is the US legal system still dependent on it ?
(DIR) Post #Av8EETsaua0vEDAo9A by foone@digipres.club
2025-06-14T20:09:13Z
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this includes Quattro Pro, natch. Can you buy Lotus 1-2-3 today? NOPE! but Quattro Pro LIVES!
(DIR) Post #Av8EV4SyeNw7Kk6NZw by apodoxus@mastodon.online
2025-06-14T20:12:13Z
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@foone Probably requires you to go online though.
(DIR) Post #Av8EZYYEjnKHnYhVNA by foone@digipres.club
2025-06-14T20:13:04Z
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Microsoft Multiplan? DEADMicrosoft Works? DEADLotus 1-2-3? DEADVisicalc? DEADClaris Resolve? DEADAppleworks? DEADThe only remaining 20th century spreadsheets are Quattro Pro and a PC port of Microsoft's Macintosh spreadsheet, the bastard Excel.
(DIR) Post #Av8Eizu6PVPhEmQjAm by foone@digipres.club
2025-06-14T20:14:44Z
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(WPS Office is an edge case. it's from the 80s and is still around, but it was only a spreadsheet until 2001)
(DIR) Post #Av8Em1Xwl9OhCVVgjw by foone@digipres.club
2025-06-14T20:15:00Z
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@apodoxus yeah it's just a download key.
(DIR) Post #Av8EyffrOLZB85F4vA by gentarkin@techhub.social
2025-06-14T20:17:34Z
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@foone what about LibreOffice? It's a port of Star Office from the 80s.
(DIR) Post #Av8F8BCVXuefVu2y5A by stirz@mastodon.online
2025-06-14T20:19:18Z
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@foone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftMaker_Office is also still here
(DIR) Post #Av8FDydt9OruImcP6O by foone@digipres.club
2025-06-14T20:20:22Z
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@stirz has it always had spreadsheet functionality? the PlanMaker page says it was first released in 2007
(DIR) Post #Av8FH1gwGobocyV0b2 by foone@digipres.club
2025-06-14T20:20:56Z
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@gentarkin if libreoffice counts as staroffice, I'm still running Netscape Navigator. I don't think it count as one program...
(DIR) Post #Av8FKJJbCd9W9f9FXU by cameron_bosch@floss.social
2025-06-14T20:20:58Z
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@foone I found one in a former Circuit City now Micro Center in Yonkers, NY, last week.
(DIR) Post #Av8FovpoYIgEJComGG by foone@digipres.club
2025-06-14T20:26:57Z
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@alienghic is firefox netscape navigator?
(DIR) Post #Av8GFsVj1EUPonGpRQ by kawa@mas.to
2025-06-14T20:31:54Z
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@foone Depending on how you look at it, LibreOffice Calc may or may not count as a 20th century spreadsheet.
(DIR) Post #Av8GsJrllB3lfEua92 by Benhm3@mastodon.social
2025-06-14T20:38:46Z
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@foone Multiplan was Excel's parent, and it was only on the Mac.
(DIR) Post #Av8HE6FB5XvlmmFL3g by pthenq1@mastodon.la
2025-06-14T20:42:44Z
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@foone Where is it? I want my copy!
(DIR) Post #Av8Hc8iRY6fkP1OkXQ by tml@urbanists.social
2025-06-14T20:47:03Z
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@foone LibreOffice Calc is a direct descendant of StarOffice’s StarCalc. From 1985. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOfficeOh, but because it is open source nowadays the age of its core technology doesn’t matter, shouldn’t be used against it? To some degree, I can accept that, sure.
(DIR) Post #Av8Hqko6itX4ax149Q by tml@urbanists.social
2025-06-14T20:49:42Z
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@foone @gentarkin Have you actually looked into LibreOffice source code? It is full of artefacts from StarOffice times. Things called SO something etc. The main executable is still called soffice(.exe), for chrissake. But tons of things have been very much cleaned up and rewritten, of course.
(DIR) Post #Av8I3NbQJBdCOM6UaW by bayindirh@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-06-14T20:52:02Z
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@foone @alienghic Well, yes. Firefox was using Netscape’s “profile manager” until a couple of months ago, even.It has evolved massively over the years, but Firefox is direct descendant of Navigator. Used to use Mozilla 0.9.5 on Knoppix.
(DIR) Post #Av8Ia9bLNywkWXh7Zo by pthenq1@mastodon.la
2025-06-14T20:44:18Z
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@foone Is it the one in Santa Clara?
(DIR) Post #Av8IaAYBrC1BT3E7Ie by foone@digipres.club
2025-06-14T20:58:01Z
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@pthenq1 yeah
(DIR) Post #Av8Iw6AooLPYGOkega by pthenq1@mastodon.la
2025-06-14T21:01:58Z
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@foone ✌️🙏🚗💨🎶🎶
(DIR) Post #Av8J8Wz6xBA2tMCgym by Rgsharpe@sfba.social
2025-06-14T21:04:12Z
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@foone @gentarkin I think it's fair, but definitely not because it let's me brag that the most use I ever got out of software I paid for was Netscape Navigator.(1999's Red Hat 6.2 box is a close second).
(DIR) Post #Av8JXuhTusIngU3q1g by Leeisme@mastodon.xyz
2025-06-14T21:08:43Z
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@foone I'm just a fan of one time purchase software. Everyone wants to be my landlord now.
(DIR) Post #Av8PJMF3pnqCU5D4aG by thomholwerda@exquisite.social
2025-06-14T22:13:13Z
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@foone Go to the WordPErfect website, and really look at the screenshots on the product pages. You'll be in for a treat with the UI shown. 😄
(DIR) Post #Av8RREBBtUmVhiHQfI by tdr@masto.nu
2025-06-14T22:37:03Z
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@foone And as a legal professional, I can understand that they are still selling it. Don‘t know any legal professional who is really happy with MS Word.
(DIR) Post #Av8RxK3tYjMvDMAhZg by eddieddieddie@mastodon.nz
2025-06-14T22:42:53Z
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@foone all this talk of WordPerfect still being available to buy in a real store (though not on real media) got me reading the WordPerfect wiki article and I discovered that WordPerfect was once officially available on *magnetic tape!* How many consumer software packages still published today were once available on tape?(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPerfect#Unix)
(DIR) Post #Av8Sbft5pZNAUOMP6O by tdr@masto.nu
2025-06-14T22:50:15Z
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@foone @stirz Yes, Planmaker exists since 1995.
(DIR) Post #Av8Xwq0nspINk1sTg0 by Nekoplanet@paquita.masto.host
2025-06-14T23:50:06Z
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@foone i miss clarisworks
(DIR) Post #Av8bUuTG6x5DHM7rI8 by north@xn--8r9a.com
2025-06-15T00:29:48Z
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@foone $100?!
(DIR) Post #Av92IJ2a9DhWTirXAO by stirz@mastodon.online
2025-06-15T05:30:04Z
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@foone I definitely have a pre-2007 license key somewhere, so: yes!
(DIR) Post #Av943naeU0GSn50agK by foone@digipres.club
2025-06-15T05:49:57Z
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Okay SoftMaker Office wasn't super clear from the wiki but it's had a spreadsheet since the 90s.And fuck it, we can count LibreOffice. It's the same as StarOffice apparently
(DIR) Post #Av946gPVdKi5OMAifI by foone@digipres.club
2025-06-15T05:50:14Z
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@tdr @stirz cool. Updated!
(DIR) Post #Av94hbM7OD56QhBpfk by jens@social.finkhaeuser.de
2025-06-15T05:57:00Z
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@foone One could argue that too little changed from StarOffice days, but I actually like using it (when I have to).
(DIR) Post #Av94o8zTFWCgU1iTjs by stirz@mastodon.online
2025-06-15T05:58:21Z
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@foone Which is also visible when you open a process monitor and notice that it's still running as "soffice" - at least under Linux. Dunno about Windows...
(DIR) Post #Av96MjNyXTlnA3EbHE by waldi@chaos.social
2025-06-15T06:15:43Z
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@foone Including a bespoke RPC mechanism, requiring assembler porting.
(DIR) Post #Av99ILK4MX8lEe0TT6 by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2025-06-15T06:48:30Z
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@fooneI used sc in the eighties and it's still around and just an ”apt install sc” away... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sc_(spreadsheet_calculator)
(DIR) Post #Av9E1AcZOgK2tPI6Lo by darkcyberman@nerdculture.de
2025-06-15T07:41:27Z
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@foone there is a linux port for lotus123 https://github.com/taviso/123elf
(DIR) Post #Av9RWhwspngadbA2mu by uliwitness@chaos.social
2025-06-15T10:12:46Z
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@foone Digital download though. Even the USB stick era is over.I wonder if Toast is still available boxed.
(DIR) Post #Av9nVU6szzM4Q5f4oC by bazcurtis@mastodon.social
2025-06-15T14:19:03Z
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@foone @ChrisWarwick what will it run on?
(DIR) Post #AvAJ65z8kr7ItJyZ04 by foone@digipres.club
2025-06-15T20:13:06Z
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@IceWolf Santa Clara, but yeah! It's got a lot of neat stuff
(DIR) Post #AvDw69TcFiipPH80dU by ann3nova@corteximplant.com
2025-06-17T14:14:16Z
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@foone How many discs are in there? 📀
(DIR) Post #AvDwEw29bPaIJvTGzo by foone@digipres.club
2025-06-17T14:15:54Z
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@ann3nova none, it's just a download code
(DIR) Post #AvDwLmo0JLnFj77TRg by ann3nova@corteximplant.com
2025-06-17T14:16:17Z
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@foone I know. I was teasing. :)
(DIR) Post #AvDwPUq53I7HA9rNc8 by vxo@digipres.club
2025-06-17T14:16:32Z
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@foone on an unrelated tangent, those boxes sitting behind the WordPerfect download box remind me so much of the "Expert Software" stuff that Tiger Software (later TigerDirect) sold until Expert vanishedIt was based somewhere in Coral Gables, Florida
(DIR) Post #AvDwT75PJ3TOeYkmbQ by foone@digipres.club
2025-06-17T14:17:50Z
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@vxo oh yeah, I love Expert Software
(DIR) Post #AvDwx34WnNZYtIcHuS by vxo@digipres.club
2025-06-17T14:23:22Z
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@fooneOh thank goodness I'm not the only one who remembers them.
(DIR) Post #AvDxTEkgu9h2Nmgd6W by 12thRITS@mstdn.social
2025-06-17T14:29:38Z
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@foone I *knew* this would be useful again soneday!
(DIR) Post #AvDxwfZ6IFnxwKIdua by vxo@digipres.club
2025-06-17T14:31:27Z
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@12thRITS @foone this makes me wonder exactly where the UI convention of having F1 call up the help files came from.... and why WordPerfect didn't go that same directionMaybe WP's F3 shortcut predated the establishment of F1 as a common standard?
(DIR) Post #AvDxwghI5HwzS18hJg by foone@digipres.club
2025-06-17T14:34:52Z
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@vxo @12thRITS apparently lotus 1-2-3 did it in '83, and wordperfect started in '79