From the Not Just Numbers blog:
This week, I thought I’d do something a little more light-hearted than the usual Excel tips and share a video I discovered on YouTube that made me smile.
Do you remember the feeling the first time you realised what you could do with a decent spreadsheet package?
Well I think this 1983 advertisement for Lotus1-2-3 captures it nicely!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4_SH_KdTAk
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Visicalc
I saw Visicalc demonstrated on a Commodore Pet in 1979/80 and could see the potential straight away. The first one that I used was Supercalc on an Osborne 1, then Multiplan.
I showed one of my partners how to do forecasts using Multiplan. A couple of days later I saw him on one of the PCs (in a room of their own in those days) with a calculator in his hand. Turns out, that he was adding up the expenditure column to enter on the spreadsheet. Some people get it straight away, others need a nudge!
Discovery of Lotus 123 was a milestone
I was introduced to Lotus 123 on a machine runnning MSDOS - pre Windows days. What a revelation! I suspect I'm an Excel addict now.