From: "Randy H" 

Multiplan even made it to the TI 99/4A.

"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
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> On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 17:57:46 -0500, "Frank Haber"

> wrote:
>
> >Hey, Mr. Miller...
> >
> >Since you're spamming even this NT group with those bombs, could I have
some
> >fun, too?  Let's collect all the never-happened and quietly-died MS
products
> >we can remember.  Off the top of my head:
> >
> >Ms Work: (not Works).  Suite-to-be.  Never happened, to my knowledge.
> >
> >MS Access, the comm program.  Not bad; insanely complicated.  Name
> >resurrected for the database, since MS has only a limited number of
> >"blanket-generic, but warm-fuzzy and vaguely powerful"
nouns in its name
> >bank.
>
>
> Don't forget Dial.  Talk about bad...
>
> >
> >Multiplan: Quite competitive for its era.  Was this actually written in
> >house?  Fully?  Preserve it in amber!
>
> From my copy of the Microsoft May 1983 Product Catalog:
>
> ===
> Microsoft Multiplan(tm) Electronic Worksheet
>
> The Microsoft Multiplan(tm) Electronic Worksheet replaces the
> time-consuming, midnight-oil method of using pencil, eraesr, ledger paper,
> and calculator to develop worksheets, the Multiplan program will help you
> get fast answers to all kinds of planning, modeling and forecasting
> questions....
>
> System Requirements:
>
> MS-DOS 64K memory (based on 48K available user memory...), one disk drive.
> ...
> ====
>
>
> >
> >MS Network, with IBM.  Did they support the enterprise part-analog
broadband
> >variant?
> >
> >MS/SCO Xenix
> >
> >The original standalone BASIC, a sort-of-opsys.
> >
> >All the classic languages, for several platforms.  Fortran, COBOL,
Pascal,
> >BASIC, Assembler/linker, etc.
> >
> >Ditto for CP/M.
> >
> >All the MS Home line - never kept track of these
> >
> >All the old games -   ditto
> >
> >
> >Others?  Warning: set your grey matter to a 1999 date before trying to
> >remember.
>
>
> Most of what you mention are in the 1983 catalog.
>
>  /m
> >
> >
> >
>

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