Hi, I trained as a compometer operator at Sumlock in Birmingham in 1969 and had my first job as a junior comptometer operator in West Bromwich, it meant that I earned twice the salary of an office junior and gained some respect within the office. I went on to have a long career in computers having that as a good grounding for me.Samcat I used to work for Sumlock comptometer and found them far too complicated for myself. I just worked in the office in the middle of their service dept. They had a school where people were trained to us them and gain qualifications. There was another company next to us but I can't remember their name. Google in Sumlock comptometer and see what comes up. Jean.
That was rather my point!But there you are assuming it will be printed out. Try using word where there are 20 columns
I agree, it was the need for integrated that swang it for me too.Mort, Lotus and Corel were good however when l started my company in 1989 basically engineering we had to make decision Lotus vs Microsoft. This was a big move for us with 100 plus people and needed to be integrated.
My son started graduate school where he was required to have a computer with Microsoft office on it. Speaking to head or their computer group about why, he said office was fully integrated, required many fewer key strokes etc. Never looked back and have used Outlook everywhere. Yesterday I had calls using Microsofts version of zoom. One was to Sweden the other linked Germany & Indi, flawless.
Spargone, totally agree but so many use excel for notes and letters!Dan Bricklin, originator of VisiCalc, explains how it came about here.
The computer spreadsheet was a great invention but I am not sure it was good for mathematics. (I solved a good few problems by using an incremental approach with a spreadsheet rather work out the appropiate function). Another use of spreadsheets, which I strongly deprecate, is using it for presenting tables, Word etc. do that job far better! (If nothing else wordprocessors make one very aware that a page has a finite size, something speadsheets pretend they aren't!