sign in sign up
<<
Home , Atari 800, Spreadsheet, Visicalc, VisiCorp

Appendix 1: and UltraCalc commands

VisiCalc spreadsheet commands

Familiarity with the following spreadsheet commands /­ REPEATING COMMAND LABEL and routines will assist the user. /R REPLICATE COMMAND (refer to example in Introduction) /IT TITLE COMMAND /CY CLEAR SCREEN /TH FIX ROW AT OR ABOVE CURSOR FIX COLUMN AT OR TO LEFT OF /SL LOAD }" /TV /SS SAVE mput FILENAME CURSOR /SD DELETE (press Y to confirm deletion) /TB FIX COLUMN AND ROWS SHIFT> GO TO CO-ORDINATE (input CELL /TN UNFIX COLUMNS AND ROWS LOCATION) /GC SET COLUMN WIDTH (3 to 37 characters SHIFT 1 RECALCULATE wide) SHIFT" LABEL MODE /E PLACE CONTENTS OF CELL ON EDIT /IC INSERT COLUMN LINE (then use left or right arrow key to /IR INSERT ROW move along edit line - ESC deletes charac­ /ID DELETE ROW or COLUMN ter to left of edit cue position) /B® BLANK OUT CELL CONTENTS /M® MOVE A COMPLETE ROW OR COLUMN

UltraCalc spreadsheet commands

Familiarity with the following spreadsheet commands /DR DELETE ROW and routines will assist the user. /R REPLICATE COMMAND (refer to instruc­ tions in UltraCalc Manual - similar routine /QY QUIT OR CLEAR SCREEN to VisiCalc) /L LOAD } . /W SET COLUMN WIDTH (3 to 37 characters SAVE mput FILENAME /S wide) GO TO CO-ORDINATE (input CELL /P PRINTER COMMAND- enter area to be ~~} LOCATION) printed CNTA RECALCULATE /F3 THREE DECIMAL PLACE MODE for cell SHIFT" LABEL MODE location /IC INSERT COLUMN /FD DEFAULT FORMAT- enter after /F3 to /IR INSERT ROW place all entries to 3 decimal places /B® BLANK OUT CELL CONTENTS *DELETE DELETE PROGRAM (enter FILENAME) /BA BLANK OUT AN AREA *CAT CATALOG DISK /DC DELETE COLUMN *BASIC TO CHANGE TO BASIC MODE

723 Appendix II: Details for obtaining VisiCalc

VisiCalc® is a registered trade mark of VisiCorp Inc. Address: High Wycombe VisiCalc is available from: Buckinghamshire England 1. Your registered Apple dealership 2. VisiCorp Inc. The VisiCalc manual, available with the VisiCalc Address: 2895, lanker Road diskette, is written by Dan Gylstra and Bill Kling. San Jose The VisiCalc program is written by Arts United States of America Inc. CA 95134 VisiCalc may be used on the Apple II, Apple Plus, Apple lie, Apple Ill, , Commodore PET COM 2001 and 8032, DEC Professional, Hewlett­ In Great Britain the VisiCorp dealership is held by Packard 125, IBM Personal , and the Rapid Recall Ltd TSR 80 Model 1.

124 Appendix Ill: Obtaining the program disks for the applications in the text

DISK DETAILS- ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS: UltraCalc ROM chip available from BBC Software. VISICALC DISK REF VlOO, V101, V102 For each example a blank master display and worked example have been prepared. Disks are available at a The examples contained in chapters 2 to 5 have been cost of £50.00 each including VAT and postage. formatted on three disks. For each example, the Disk Ordering Details: state disk reference blank master has been copied on to the disk together with a worked example. Disks are available at a cost BBC1 00 - Contract budgets and office procedures of £50.00 each including VAT and postage from the (examples 2.1 to 3.4) address shown below. BBC1 01 - Quantity surveying and estimating Disk Ordering Details: state disk reference (examples 4.1 to 4.6) BBC102- Plane surveying (examples 5.1 to 5.6) V1 00 - Contract budgets and office procedures (examples 2.1 to 3.4) V1 01 - Quantity surveying and estimating SUMMARY (examples 4.1 to 4.6) V102- Plane surveying (examples 5.1 to 5.6) Single disk £50.00 each as specified. Where all three disks are ordered at the same time the inclusive price is £120.00 for all three disks. Disks available from: ProBuild Software DISK DETAILS - ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS: 82, Torkington Rd, BBC DISK REF BBC100, BBC101, BBC102 Hazel Grove, STOCKPORT, Eighteen of the examples have been formatted on SK74RL three disks for the BBC Model B for use with the Cheshire, England.

125 Appendix IV: suitable for VisiCalc applications

Versions of the VisiCalc diskette may be used on the for a further range of microcomputers. A selection of following range of microcomputers these include

Apple II or Apple Plus Apple lie Mutliplan -available from Corporation Apple Ill CalcResult -available from Kobra Micro Marketing Atari 800 MagiCalc - available from Peachtree Software Commodore PET CDM 2001 and 8032 SuperCalc - available from Pulsar Software Packages DEC Professional UltraCalc -available from BBC Software for the Hewlett-Packard 125 BBC Model B . IBM TSR 80 Modell

BBC Software is OTHER SPREADSHEET AND FINANCIAL available from BBC Publications MODELLING DISKS AVAILABLE British Broadcasting Corporation 35 Marylebone High Street A wide range of spreadsheet applications are available London Wl M 4AA

Note All the applications illustrated may be readily input on to any of the commercial in use.

126 Appendix V: VisiCalc reading references

A number of textbooks that relate to VisiCalc appli­ C. Klitzner and M. Plociak, Using VisiCalc, Getting cations are available. The majority of these relate to Down to Business, Wiley, Chichester, 1983 applications developed for the North American market. T. M. O'Donovan, VisiCa/c Made Simple, Wiley, D. M Castlewitz, VisiCa/c Programs Made Easy, Chichester, 1984 McGraw Hill (Osborne), 1983 S. R. Trost, Doing Business with VisiCalc, Sybex Inc., D. M. Castlewitz, Chisansky and Kronberg, VisiCalc Berkeley, California, 1983 Home and Office Companion, Sybex Inc., Berkeley, California, 1982 S. R. Trost and C. Pomernacki, VisiCa/c for Science D. Hergert, Managing VisiCalc, Sybex Inc., Berkeley, and Engineering, Sybex Inc., Berkeley, California, California, 1983 1983

127