Sheets Spreadsheets in Your Terminal

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• deathanatos 3 hours ago
  You might say … it's As Easy As[2] 1-2-3?[1]

  [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_1-2-3

  [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As-Easy-As

  What's old is new again.
• lateforwork 5 hours ago
  All spreadsheets used to run in your terminal, in the old days. You can still download one here and I wouldn't be surprised if it still works: https://winworldpc.com/product/quattro-pro/4x
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  • captn3m0 11 minutes ago
    You can run Lotus 1-2-3 for Unix in modern Linux : https://github.com/taviso/123elf
  • jnpnj 37 minutes ago
    there are some videos about quattro in those days and i was sincerely surprised how featured and advanced it was

    the ratio of space / cpu / capabilities (beside the network part) is something that reaches deep in my brain
  • tibbon 4 hours ago
    Right? Visicalc wasn't using anything that a terminal didn't offer.
• jnpnj 37 minutes ago
  pretty cool, most of the time I don't want to spin emacs org-table nor google sheets for a quick table
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  • maaslalani 6 minutes ago
    Agreed!
• gigatexal 2 days ago
  Vim bindings I’m in!
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  • opengears 5 hours ago
    +1
• halosghost 5 hours ago
  See also, one of the older / more-robust entrants in this space [0], and one of the more innovative (still from a hot-second ago now…) [1].

  All the best,

  0. https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im

  1. https://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/teapot/

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  • somat 4 hours ago
    Teapot is pretty great, it's too bad there is close to zero room for real innovation in the spreadsheet domain. For the most part if it's not spreadsheeting how prophet Dan Bricklin envisioned, people don't want it.

    See also: lotus improv

    Actually... on that note I realized have never tried lotus improv.

    I found a copy of the win3.1 version here. https://archive.org/details/lotus-improv-2.0-for-windows-2.0...

    But my plan is to go for the full nerd experiance and see if I can get the nextstep version to work. https://winworldpc.com/download/7c521434-e280-a0e2-82ac-11c3...

    Which will require a NeXT machine emulator https://previous.nextcommunity.net/

    Wish me luck.

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    • einr 1 hour ago
      The easy way to accomplish this is to just launch a NeXTstep box in your browser from https://infinitemac.org/

      I don’t know if they have Improv pre-installed, but it will let you mount disk images from your computer.

      (Personally I find the easy way too easy, so I have NeXT^WOpenSTEP installed on bare metal on a 5x86 box. But that’s me)