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From: quinn@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Clark Quinn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: End of Trapeze (sniff!)
Message-ID: <107135@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 25 Mar 91 14:41:34 GMT
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In article <91078.080944SB06@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK> SB06@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK writes:
>Yes - that's what they said - no plans to upgrade.. I too would like to see
>someone pick this up and develop it. It is streets ahead of things like Excel
>3 - I use Trapeze all the time for 'playing' with data, for standard lab
>analyses, and for simulations. I'd like a macro language, but I'll take Trapeze
>over any of the other spreasheets.
>
>Please, someone, rescue Trapeze and market it hard and properly! This is a
>scientists spreadsheet..
>
>Rob beynon, Biochemistry, Liverpool, UK

Here's another hearty endorsement of Trapeze.  I use it as my
spreadsheet (I've tried others, but Trapeze ends up being so simple),
and graphing package, and number juggler, and....  It's not quite what
you think, it doesn't start up with a blank spreadsheet, you create
blocks of the size you need.  It's called a Presentation Spreadsheet,
which means you can 'hide' and 'show' what you want, but it also lets
you graph your data, have lots of different styles of text, customize
the look, etc.  I used it to create overheads, figures and tables in 
papers, etc.

It also is remarkably bulletproof, conceptually simple (odd, doesn't
follow Mac guidelines, and yet is Maclike in it's intuitiveness) and
quite sophisticated for how old it is.  I didn't use it often, but could
quickly get back into the swing of it, I wonder how true that is of
other spreadsheets.

So, it won't be upgraded to run under System 7?  Sigh.  All in all, it
was a good investment and I'm sorry to see it die.  It was all but
ignored by the magazines (although one of the spreadsheet summaries
mentioned it recently, held up well to the others), and I've always
assumed that I was alone in using it.  Nice to hear others liked it,
too. -- Clark

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