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  • I’m pretty certain Excel supports scroll lock. It lets you scroll the sheet with the arrow keys instead of moving from cell to cell (also last time I tried you could go to the ribbon menu with the slash key, like in the good ol’ Lotus 123 days). Wouldn’t be surprised if it also works in other spreadsheet programs.


  • Dragon 32, if I recall correctly.

    Mostly try to learn some basic (probably was too young for that), play some games, and try to get the cassette to work. It almost certainly wasn’t the right computer for a kid my age.

    Later, if I recall correctly, some model of Atari ST, which again was mostly wasted, though it introduced me to graphics editing, and some 16MHz (with turbo on!) 286 computer with a 65MB hard drive and CGA graphics (later upgraded to EGA and eventually VGA, though that might have been with a later 486), which introduced me to DOS (and extended and expanded memory), WordStar, dBASE 3, Lotus123, LucasArts and Sierra adventures, Wing Commander, a multitude of CRPGs, and eventually Windows 3.x.

    I didn’t really get online until I went to the university, back in the glorious days of Yahoo, and the much superior Altavista, surfing on Netscape, before Internet Explorer ruined everything.

    There were some great SGI Indigo machines (my first contact with a Unix type OS) and a prehistoric VAX machine with actual dumb terminals (never saw the actual server, sadly) for us to practice with there at the university, though, so that was great (though it didn’t make up for the Pascal).











  • Every Lemmygrad account I’ve been exposed to seemed to be a Chinese and / or Russian bot single-mindedly trying to sell the idea that despite all evidence to the contrary China and / or Russia are somehow not oligarchic dictatorships as far as you can get from Marx’s views without going full fascist.

    As for Hexbear, they appear to be adolescent or younger far right lunatic trolls affected by lead poisoning and foetal alcohol syndrome acting like they believe leftists and “woke” people would act, for shits and giggles, and just to try to derail any serious conversation in the fediverse.

    Therefore they’re both essentially spam, and despised as such by anyone who doesn’t find them funny.