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25th anniversary of computer spreadsheets (October 2004) Exclusive: “25 years of spreadsheets,” article published in Polish edition of Chip magazine in October 2004, with many illustrations screenshots from various spreadsheets splashes from 1-2-3 and Excel

Vintage articles: “What is this VisiCalc, anyway?” from Personal Computing 2/82 New: “People in the news: Dan Bricklin” from PC Magazine 2/85 “VisiCalc production ends” by James Langdell, from PC Magazine 8/85 “Scenarios for success: The vision of spreadsheeting” by Myron Berger, from Personal Computing 4/82 “Spreadsheets: The way we look at the numbers has changed” by Michael Antonoff, from Personal Computing 10/86 “Ten years of rows and columns” by Tracy R. Licklider, from Byte 13/89 “Lotus, move forward or die!” by John Dvorak, from PC Magazine 3/93 Vintage reviews of spreadsheets: “Lotus Development Corporation’s 1-2-3”, from Byte 12/82 “A more graphic 1-2-3 coexists with Windows 3.0”, a review of 1-2-3 3.1 from PC Magazine 11/90 “Spreadsheets”, a joint review of 1-2-3 2.01, HAL 2.01, Boeing CALC 3.0, Excel 1.03, Multiplan 3.01, Silk, SuperCalc4, Trapeze and VP-Planner 1.3, from Byte 1987 “A new face for spreadsheets”, a review of first Excel for Windows, from PC Magazine 12/87 “Excel extraordinaire”, a review of Excel 2.0, from Byte 3/88 “New extras for Excel”, a review of Excel 3.0, from Byte 13/89 “OS/2 gets a spreadsheet”, a review of Excel for OS/2, from Byte 11/89 “Quattro Pro: Unify and conquer”, a review of Quattro Pro, from Personal Computing 4/90 “A new status quo for Quattro”, a review of Quattro Pro 2.0, from Byte 11/90 Vintage advertisements: spreadsheets: 1-2-3, CalcStar, Excel, Framework, Jazz, MicroPlan, Multiplan, Perfect Calc, pfs:Plan, PlannerCalc, Quattro and Quattro Pro 1-4, Quattro Pro 6, Silk, SuperCalc 1-3, SuperCalc 4, 5 and Silverado, Symphony, UltraPlan, VIP Professional, VisiCalc, VP-planner add-ins and accessories: Chart, D·a·v·e·, Noteworthy, pfs:Graph, Sideways books and tutorials: ATI Training, Hayden, SoftwareBanc references to spreadsheets in other ads: Columbia VP Portable, IBM PC, Radio Shack TRS-80

Other websites: official website of Dan Bricklin official website Bob Frankston biography of Dan Bricklin Godfathers of the Spreadsheets: interview with Bricklin, Frankston and Fylstra from 2004 The man who made PCs useful: interview with Bricklin from 1997 Wikipedia definition Brief History of Spreadsheets Inventors of the Modern Computer: The First Spreadsheet The Spreadsheet Page Major Markets: WordProcessors and Spreadsheets

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