Lotus 1-2-3, Excel, Microsoft & Apple In The Early 1980s

Whitefish Public Library

Whitefish, Montana

September 21, 2024

I’m watching some YouTube videos about the development of Apple computers and IBM PCs in the early 1980s. Soon after starting work in August 1981, I became the guinea pig for using an IBM PC and Lotus 1-2-3 to manage my company’s uranium inventory.  Harvard Graphics, too, to draw graphs.

Excel came along while I was in business school.  I had forgotten how Microsoft developed Excel for use on Apple computers not on those running the Microsoft operating system.

This is all by way of saying how asleep I was not to realize that I should invest in Apple and Microsoft in the mid to late 80s if not before.  Would have created some wealth!  Of course hindsight is 20-20 but it would not have taken much foresight to hop on those horses.

(By 1990, IBM, Harvard Graphics and Lotus 1-2-3 had been left in the dust.)