[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Spreadsheet" (Electronic)

[Shapiro, Fred]

I see now that, years ago, Garson O'Toole and Dave Wilton posted much earlier citations for electronic "spreadsheets."

Fred Shapiro
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Subject: Further Antedating of "Spreadsheet" (Electronic)

spreadsheet (OED, 2. [electronic], 1982)

1980 Kalamazoo Gazette 16 Mar. B-26/2  (Newspapers.com)  "VisiCalc and Desk Top Planning"  This seminar helps the person who does spread sheet analyses in engineering or accounting to do faster and better matrix computations.

NOTE:  As I have previously posted, my first partner on the MIT tiddlywinks team (in 1970) was Dan Bricklin, who went on to create the Visi Calc software and thus became the person who effectively launched the personal computer industry.

Fred Shapiro

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