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From: jt@edge.UUCP (J.T. McDuffie)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Looking for spreadsheet for Microdata running PICK OS
Summary: Try CompuSheet+ from Interactive Systems.
Keywords: Pick,Microdata,spreadsheets
Message-ID: <1277@edge.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jul 88 21:09:33 GMT
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Reply-To: jt@edge.UUCP (J.T. McDuffie)
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Organization: Edge Computer Corporation, Scottsdale, AZ
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In response to your search for a spreadsheet program for Pick OS
systems, you might like to try ComputSheet+, by Interactive Systems, 635
Southpoint Court, Suite 110, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80906, (303)
579-6800.  Ask for John Brandon.

Interactive offers their spreadsheet, one of the very few available for
Pick systems, for almost all systems running the Pick OS.  It has a lot
going for it, BUT... the Pick system was *NOT* designed to perform
number crunching, and *ANY* spreadsheet program on *ANY* Pick system
will be *SLOW* when compared to even an old Apple and, say, VisiCalc.
My personal opinion is thay if you can get by using cheap PC clones
instead, you'd be better off.  PC's can be used as terminals, word
processors, spreadsheet crunchers, etc., etc., etc.  A Pick (or Microdata)
system can handle any business data base problem very well, but does not
handle chores such as word processing, spreadsheets, etc. anywhere near
as well.

JT McDuffie

(Standard Disclamer: The above are my own and not those of my employer)