Lotus 123 was my introduction to the 80’s.
I learned Lotus for VAX and VMS, on company time and at my leisure. To occupy my brain as I got proficient at coding, I started themeing the range names so that someone reading the code would find a Star Trek section, an erotic section, and various other conceits. Bear in mind, I was a quality control supervisor whose job description didn’t include programming. LOL
Eventually, over the years, I created a program using Visual Basic for Applications that covered the operations of a photo lab from chemistry usage, silver recovery, and inventory control. A technical guy from Fuji in Japan paid us a visit and was impressed with the program. I gave him a CD of it to take back to Japan. A week later I got a flask of macadamia nuts from them. It was neat.
With the program, I saved the lab over a hundred thousand dollars a year in chemical costs, and of course got none of it. AAMOF, when Fuji closed the lab, my request to transfer to another lab was accompanied by the comment that I was not a team player. heh. As if anyone knew enough about what I was doing to form a ‘team.’