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Page generated Jan. 26th, 2026 05:57 am
Glaciation is very comforting
Date: Jan. 17th, 2026 10:17 pm (UTC)Our planet has been through A Lot!
Your Apple IIe spreadsheet might have been VisiCalc? An Apple II computer lab makes me go 🙀 ! I thought they were restricted to pre-secondary, but I was relatively late to that platform, beginning in 1984. But since we were registered developers, I got one of the first LaserWriters (cosmic blessing for large print documentation)
Speaking of spreadsheet delight, I got a big grin from this Wired article from fandom journalist Elizabeth Minkel.
Re: Glaciation is very comforting
Date: Jan. 24th, 2026 05:27 pm (UTC)I don't think it was VisiCalc. Hmm. Dunno! Let's see--- oh, pretty sure it was part of AppleWorks. Not exactly a powerful spreadsheet, but an enticing introduction.
In that lab we had "educational software" on the 5+" floppies that profs in "remedial" courses would assign their students to do--- lotsa students at the community college weren't quite prepared for 100-level classes. But we also could have folks do word processing and get tutoring. Later they opened a PC lab, and I remember feeling like (as someone who had a Mac at home) (my first was the LC III) I better learn how to use those Windows machines somewhere somehow or fall out of contemporary base-level computer understanding. I was piecing together a living back then, and it was hard to afford any personal computer, for quite a while.