{"id":71,"date":"2010-04-21T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/21\/mainframe-spreadsheets-used-before-visicalc\/"},"modified":"2019-10-18T16:22:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T20:22:30","slug":"mainframe-spreadsheets-used-before-visicalc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/21\/mainframe-spreadsheets-used-before-visicalc\/","title":{"rendered":"Mainframe Spreadsheets Used Before VisiCalc"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"d942c2121bfbd137a3b44056a000f09c\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Responsive Top -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9531091850463532\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"6574318169\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>While digging into the history of electronic spreadsheets, I found an article by Ken Dakin, who was the programmer for Works Record System, a mainframe spreadsheet.<\/p>\n<p>His <a title=\"History of Spreadsheets\" href=\"http:\/\/www.editgrid.com\/user\/ken\/HISTORY_OF_SPREADSHEETS\">History of Spreadsheets<\/a> lists some of the mainframe spreadsheets that were in use before VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet for PC users.<\/p>\n<p>Works Record System, a 3-D spreadsheet, was used at ICI from 1974-2001, and the article includes excerpts from the user manual and a screenshot.<\/p>\n<h2>Mainframe spreadsheets<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>BCL 1962<\/li>\n<li>Autoplan 1968<\/li>\n<li>LANPAR 1971<\/li>\n<li>WRS 1974<\/li>\n<li>APLDOT 1976<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mainframe01b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-747\" src=\"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mainframe01b.jpg\" alt=\"Mainframe Spreadsheets Used Before VisiCalc\" width=\"450\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mainframe01b.jpg 450w, https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mainframe01b-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While digging into the history of electronic spreadsheets, I found an article by Ken Dakin, who was the programmer for Works Record System, a mainframe spreadsheet. His History of Spreadsheets lists some of the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,5],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spreadsheets","tag-dakin","tag-mainframe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}