tof

I worked for Wang as a systems consultant and later as a business process engineer for almost 10 years, right up to the post-chapter 11 layoffs. They had great word processing systems (the best, for awhile) and pretty good super-mini computers, and slick office automation software, all of which were rendered obsolete by PCs. Wang came out with PCs but the first ones were only semi-compatible with IBM and the later ones were way over-priced.

Anybody remember buying a car and watching the f&i guy print out all the paperwork on a Wang system?

tof

I was a Lotus 1-2-3 guy. Remember Visicalc?

jukngene

Both! Also, before that, in the mainframe days, we used Megacalc. My first exposure to computerized spreadsheets.

kgf3076

MDW (my darling wife) worked for Wang Korea and traveled all over Asia babysitting Wang systems.

Scooterboy

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ralper

I used something called Supercalc. I never liked Lotus 123. I did like Microsoft Multiplan and especially liked QuattraPro. Like everyone else I migrated all of my files to Excel in the MSFT office suite. I did some parttime work for a company while I was working on my MBA. One department was using Excel and the other Lotus 123. I had to create two of every spreadsheet so that both departments could use them.

Does anyone use OpenOffice? It's free and it's reasonably robust.

jukngene

I had the same experience in the mid-nineties. Our IT department was very reluctant to let go of the mainframe mindset, except it was QuatroPro instead of Lotus, so it was left up to individual departments. Created quite a few headaches!

I use LibreOffice. Also quite robust and it's open source like OpenOffice. I had forgotten about Supercalc. I also used that briefly.

dlq04

Lotus 1-2-3 as well.

tof

Please say "hello" to YDW from another former Wanger. At one point there were over 35,000 of us working for Dr. Wang. When I left there were fewer than 2,000 IIRC.

kgf3076

I did say "hello" for you. She left in 1992 to get her second Masters in Computer Science.