Special Holiday Announcement Santa has been working hard and landed on MESA

Hello NeXT Community: Santa's sleigh landed on a MESA in Sonoma and a time portal opened on a deep search of the web by Rob at Black Hole. HO HO HO , I found David Pollak of Athena.com the original author of MESA.  NO the website Athena.com is not for sale even if you are Athena lol .....

MESA always impressed me and was years ahead of its time by far the best spreadsheet for NeXT and went on into the life after NeXT.  MESA version 1.5b still holds its own 30 years later and it was fun catching up with David.  He has bestowed upon us a gift of sorts this festive season.

We are able to use MESA in Full Mode ...... so yes, I have some of my original MESA License keys I will release to the NeXT community for free. All I ask is that you all contribute something to the betterment of nextcomputers.org , conversation, comments likes and event stuff for NeXT or just pay it forward.

What made MESA a stand out spreadsheet ?  Unlike the other spreadsheets for NeXT you can import and export realtime data..... who used MESA why wall street trading houses for them this was a game changing advantage at the time ..
Please Find attached
a mesa brochure.pdf
and
a Mesa installed on Previous screen shot
and
well a golden MESA license
David and  I are gifting to you all
and a location to find MESA on the Peanuts4 CD under Commercial Spreadsheets
in our NeXTComputers.org  HERE is the link for download
https://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/Peanuts/ISO/

Cheers and Best regards Rob Blessin ho ho ho

2023 The author David Pollak one heck of a talented and seasoned developer  is still at the very
forefront of the Opensource community as well ENJOY! www.athena.com

There is some source on Peanuts for MESA:)
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Rob,

Thank you for the note and the blasts from the past.

I no longer have access to the Mesa source code... I'm sure I could dig it up, but it's not handy. So I can't make a community license code.

I'm happy to state that I will not enforce any legal action against folks who use any license codes you have floating around and would be fine if you published the license codes.

Thanks,

David


On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 7:06 PM Rob Blessin <bhi1@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
Hello David Pollak:  Thank you appreciate your time !   I hope you have a sense of humor as I enjoy having fun in life and NeXT is an integral part of it.

  It has been a very long time , hey I never thought selling NeXT stuff would be a 30+ year career .
I still love my job so a MESA , I wanted to contact you to see if it is possible to create a hobbyist MESA license for the NeXT community.

I attached an example for the Mathematica hobbyiest license which has actually led to spin offs of some HUGE residual sales of Wolfram Academic and Commercial software.

I do not want to cause any problems that is why I'm contacting you.
 A lot of the original authors think it is amazing some one is still in the NeXT business!
I've been called their must reliable NeXT vendor and against all odds I survived MRSA earlier this year , MESA MRSA ha
3 month's in the hospital still not out of the woods yet as it destroyed my left hip. Hip replacement coming very soon :)
(*finding someone ethical like me about the 30 year old NeXT licenses, well it is cool.)
 * patting myself on shoulder for super sleuth abilities :)
Best Regards Rob Blessin

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Wow super nice of him to do this, and for you to work that out. The NeXT community owes a lot to you Rob!