DAL191 wrote on Jul 24^th, 2011 at 4:31am:

Markoz wrote on Jul 23rd, 2011 at 7:39pm: DAL191 wrote on Jul 23rd, 2011 at 3:25pm: I quit building PCs' in the middle 90s'. Why did you stop building your own? I still think that the best computers I can get, are the ones I build myself. And they're usually cheaper. ;D I know enough about Excel to easily put together something like you have. I know nothing at all bout Supercalc and Lotus 123 though. Mark I quit building PCs' because I was putting in a lot of time at work and the guy I use to build them with moved away and at that time if you found the right manufacture the computer could really be customized. You could select from 4-5 cases, 5 processors, 7-8 hard drives, 3 operating systems and so on. The company was Micron PC. They were more expensive but if you didn't have the time what could you do. Supercalc, Lotus123, and Excel - different generations. Excel had just come on the market when I quit using spreadsheets for work. Michael Cubine

Hi Michael.

Rereading my reply, I noticed that I seemed a bit harsh with the question about you quitting building you own PC's. Sorry for that. I can respect your reasons. I think I've been doing it for too long to be able to stop now. :-/

I remember having a go at Lotus123, but I found some other program better (to me) back then. Lotus123 was probably the better in reality, but I was only doing very basic stuff with them back then, so Lotus123 was way beyond what I needed at the time. I'll never really know now. ;)

Mark