the name of the person or company?
2007-01-25 04:51:54 · 2 answers · asked by sara s 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
The first BIG commerical success was Lotus 1-2-3 back in the 1980's. But I think VisiCalc came before that....
2007-01-25 04:57:12 · answer #1 · answered by Proto 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was not until the ready availability of visual display units ("VDU's") that fully interactive spreadsheets became possible. Earlier implementations were mainly designed around batch programs. In the early 1970's text based VDU's began to be used as input/output devices for interactive transaction processes. It was several years later before full function graphic user interfaces were available for spreadsheets.
The generally recognized inventor of the spreadsheet as a commercial product for the personal computer is Dan Bricklin although a fully interactive implementation produced in the United Kingdom at Imperial Chemical Industries, running on an IBM mainframe platform using CICS pre-dated Bricklin's version by several years even featuring shared public spreadsheets from the outset
2007-01-25 04:57:22 · answer #2 · answered by epbr123 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋