There's even some basic formatting options (italic, bold, underline, margins), which is a bit surprising for a terminal-based word processor. Spreadsheets. Text-based spreadsheet programs are nothing ...

Back in the hazy days of the early home computers, many of us would rejoice at running our first BASIC applications, some of us even built our own 8-bit system from a handful of ICs and felt elate… ...

Countless millions of copies of popular spreadsheet programs—including VisiCalc, Lotus 1-2-3, SuperCalc and, later, Microsoft Excel and Borland’s Quattro Pro—were sold during these years ...

In the late 1970s and early 1980s electronic spreadsheet programs became important tools for computer-assisted reporting. Two of the first programs were VisiCalc and Lotus 1-2-3. The introduction ...