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Re:SC-IM – An ncurses spreadsheet program for the terminal by tyingq on Saturday August 29, 2020 @04:54PM (#24319358)
Sure, and Visicalc before that, probably others.
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Re:SC-IM – An ncurses spreadsheet program for the terminal by leejoramo on Sunday August 30, 2020 @11:57AM (#24323656)
I believe that VisiCalc was the first to ship a functional spreadsheet. I remember watching RichHarris’s “Rich Harris - Rethinking reactivity” video introducing Svelte 3, and he discussed an earlier academic spreadsheet concept.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AdNJ3fydeao

I used the following “terminal” spreadsheets

VisiCalc on a Radio Shack Model III

Microsoft MultiPlan on MS-DOS

Lotus 1-2-3 on MS-DOS

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Re:SC-IM – An ncurses spreadsheet program for the terminal by JoeAltmaier on Sunday August 30, 2020 @12:00PM (#24323672)
An interesting product! It was shipped by a company (if I remember right) called "Personal Software" or some such. They marketed software they collected from individual developers.

VisiCalc was their one runaway success. So much so, they changed their name to VisiCorp.

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