Poll: how many gold and platinum coins do you own?

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Yeah that quarter eagle cost me more than my Saint Gaudens and luckily it was still at the shop a year later when I finally had the money!

 

Same. I've got 34 British Empire full sovereigns (1/4 ouncers). I need to bring them home from the bank vaults to catalogue but I'm not sure which of 2 vaults they are in and both boxes are jammed full of silver US coinage and weigh a ton. The worst part is I have to use a step ladder to pull them out and it's all I can do to keep from dropping them. The sovereigns are from the 1900-1928 era. I don't know if any have any numismatic value or not, or are simply bullion. That's why I need a list and a note of condition..........but it's not really a problem to complain about.

Here is a horrible photo of a 1917 Perth mint I took a couple of years ago.

 

Lotus 123? You realize you can download those files into Excel with a little copy and paste and tweaking? I too am old and weaning myself off Lotus was struggle of stubbornness and trepidation, but that was 15 years ago.

 

I have one 10th ounce gold coin that I bought myself for my 60th birthday 10 years ago. Don't think I'll have it much longer since it's worth about three times what I paid for it.

 

Yep gold is amazing like that, even some Mexican gold dos pesos coins have tripled in price! I bought two for $60 each a few years ago and they're selling now for over $190 today and it's not even US gold!

 

How time flys:
What happened to the Lotus spreadsheet?

That attracted IBM, which in 1995, acquired Lotus in a hostile takeover for $3.5 billion. The merger appeared to be successful in the short run, but in the end, Lotus 1-2-3 was overtaken by Excel, which remains the world's most popular spreadsheet program to this day.Jan 10, 2024

Excel or Quattro Pro (out-performed Excel) weren't able to deal with some of the early documents, of which I had hundreds of voluminous, trying to automate firms' accounting systems!

 

Feels like ancient times now. I recall that Quattro Pro was the first software to actually use the right mouse button. Something like that. I see they are still around as WordPerfect Office.

 

I remember being blown away by Lotus on the IBM PC-XT and by WordPerfect. Then QuattroPro leapt ahead of Lotus. Microsoft struggled to have its own spreadsheet. First came the awful MultiPlan. But MS knew that word processing and spreadsheets were the key to application software dominance. So, they kept improving Word and brought out Excel. Then they were lucky when Corel obtained both QuattroPro and WordPerfect and bungled upgrades (they were very buggy). Word and Excel then became kings of the hill and still are.

I keep the old X4 version of WP Office on my computer for file conversion. It can convert any version of Lotus or QuattroPro files to Excel. Any version of WordPerfect, XyWrite, WordStar, etc. files to Word. Don’t need it often, but when I do, it’s a lifesaver.

Cal

 

Reference: What is the old DOS spreadsheet program?

Lotus 1-2-3 was an early spreadsheet application available for MS-DOS. It became extremely popular in the late 1980s, displacing the former leader VisiCalc. Lotus had difficulties adapting 1-2-3 to the Windows environment, and was overtaken by Microsoft Excel.

Have you a convertor that will convert/print these early Lotus files? I haven't!

Thanks for your info/post!

 

The first spreadsheet program was VisiCalc written by Bricklin and Frankston for the Apple II. It dramatically increased the sales of Apple computers … it was the first killer app. I believe the first spreadsheet for the IBM PC was CalcStar by MicroPro. It was a companion for WordStar and had the same clunky interface. Lotus worked so much more smoothly that it instantly became the standard.

QuattroPro in the WP X4 suite will read all versions of Lotus files. Then you can print them or convert them to Excel or QuattroPro files. You should be aware though that early versions of Lotus saved charts as separate files. So, if you open one of the early Lotus spreadsheet files in QuattroPro, the data will be there, but any charts won’t.

Cal

 

Thank you for the info, which reminded me why I had never even considered VisiCalc or the "Apple", as I had become accustomed to the versatile TI59/58 until:
“Credit for the invention of the spreadsheet goes to Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston, who created VisiCalc for the Apple II. VisiCalc required 32k of memory to run. A chart from a roundup of spreadsheets in the 1982 Personal Computing magazine lists eighteen spreadsheets. Most ran on either the Apple II or on machines with the CP/M operating system.

….In January 1983, Lotus introduced Lotus 1-2-3 at a price of $495. It was immediately acknowledged to be a better product than VisiCalc. In December 1982 Gregg Williams wrote in Byte that 1-2-3 had ‘many more functions and commands than VisiCalc’ and that 1-2-3 was ‘revolutionary instead of evolutionary.’ PC World called it ‘state of the art.’"

I'm still, as you, am trying to recover/expand mathematical data equations from older spreadsheets by using newer versions which I consider too heavenly-minded, but for just mathematics/me, No Earthly Good!

I appreciate your advice and hope/wish that I find a mechanism that won't require a 64 bit processor, non-backward compatible program/O.S..

I've tried same with frustrating results.

So, What coins are you collecting, as I've been locating competitively priced certified U.S. Gold for numerous others that are frustrated with pricing above "Spot", which I've decided to acquire with lowest premium, and share "Pro Bono"!

 

Three gold coins, three and done.

 

This one is the most special because my late father bought me the set in 1995.