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Welcome to Lotus-1-2-3 Day!
It's a day to celebrate spreadsheets, which as easy as 1-2-3, because on this date in 1983, Lotus began to sell its best-selling, user-friendly spreadsheet for Microsoft DOS.
Lotus 1-2-3 wasn't the first spreadsheet program for microcomputers, though.
I bought my first computer before there was such a thing as a “PC” or IBM Personal Computer. I bought an Apple II, which was then very big in the very small microcomputer market. I remember hearing about this new kind of software – a spreadsheet program, whatever that was – called VisiCalc. It turned out that VisiCalc made Apple much more popular as a home and small business computer. A few years later, Lotus 1-2-3 did the same thing for the new PCs. Nowadays the most popular spreadsheet program is Excel.
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Throwback Thursday: Syracuse urged to build 'domed stadium' 40 years ago (PS; Croyle)
In his "Winter Message" last week, Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud said the university would soon reach a decision on what to do about the Carrier Dome's aging roof.
He said a "definitive decision on the future of the Dome would be done by summer.
Forty years ago, this week, Syracuse's now familiar domed stadium was first mentioned as a possible replacement for the crumbling Archbold Stadium.
The reaction was mixed at first but would soon gain momentum.
In January 1978, the Onondaga County Stadium Commission met with two nationally recognized experts on stadium construction.
One was David Geiger, consulting engineer of the New York City firm of Geiger-Berger Associates, who the Post-Standard called, "the nation's top authority on soft tops for major structures such as stadiums."
On Jan. 23, he told the commission that a fully-enclosed 50,000-seat stadium could be built in Syracuse for about $15 million, and asked that the group "not to reject automatically consideration of a roofed stadium."
"This is a new technology," he said, "but not untried or unproven."
Geiger's firm had built, or were in the process of building, domed stadiums or soft-top buildings for the University of Northern Iowa, the University of Santa Clara and a covered bullfight ring in Venezuela.
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ACC Pre-Spring Predictions For Every Game (collegefootballnews.com; Staff)
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SYRACUSE
Prespring Prediction: 6-6
Prespring ACC Prediction: 3-5
Sept. 1 at Western Michigan
Sept. 8 Wagner
Sept. 15 Florida State
Sept. 22 UConn
Sept. 29 at Clemson
Oct. 6 at Pitt
Oct. 13 OPEN DATE
Oct. 20 North Carolina
Oct. 27 NC State
Nov. 3 at Wake Forest
Nov. 9 Louisville
Nov. 17 Notre Dame (in New York)
Nov. 24 at Boston College
– Syracuse Schedule Analysis
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ACC Football Rx: More 2018 ACC Schedule Analysis (accfootballrx.com)
How well did the ACC do with the 2018 football schedule in terms of spreading out the number of games? Here's a table breaking out ACC conference games, non-conference games against P5, non-P5 FBS, and FCS opponents, by week:
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'We had a good run': Hullar's closes after 107 years, coffee shop remains (PS; Weaver)
Part of Hullar's will live on.
The restaurant side of Hullar's is closing, Nanette Hullar said this afternoon.
But Hullar's Coffee Shop, which serves breakfast and lunch, will remain open seven days a week.
"We might even have a couple of nights open for dinner," Hullar said.
It was time, though, to close down the full-service restaurant, she said.
"It was a horrible decision," she said. Hullar family has been talking about it for a while. Those talks involved yelling and led to some sleepless nights.
New York's higher minimum wage rate was another factor in closing, she said. The minimum wage requirement for tipped food workers in Upstate New York has grown from $5 an hour three years ago to $7.50 an hour now.
"I knew that was going to be the downfall for a lot of restaurants," she said. "That's so sad.
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