Via The Blue State Conservative
Looking back, I came of age in 1977-79 when terminals connected to a Digital Equipment VAX 2020 were used to program in Basic and Pascal at U.C. Berkeley. At this juncture, computers were used to do exactly that…compute. My first job was for a firm that had a contract with the U.S. Air Force to write software to control satellites and keep tabs on what was happening around the world.
Then in the first half of the 1980’s, we began using desktop computers to replace typewriters in business communications. Desktop publishing came along and made these communications look spiffy, destroying the typesetting equipment industry. The office applications that became ubiquitous at this point were for word processing, creation of presentations, spreadsheets, and data base building.
Because Microsoft developed or obtained all four programs and “bundled” them into a “suite” of applications, the other players in office software fell by the wayside.
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