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I remember Lotus 1,2,3 - my accountant friend was using it back in the mid 80s. He had, back around 1983, a “portable’ Compaq computer that was basically a suitcase whereupon when you opened it up, the lid was the keyboard. No mouse. It had a little monochrome screen, maybe 9” diagonal CRT. He ran Lotus 1-2-3 on it and did serious book-keeping with it, using his own designed spreadsheets.

Wordperfect, they used to use that in the office at work in that time frame, an upgrade from the dedicated word processor which was an upgrade from the electric typewriter.

My first computer, (except for that Sinclair thing I had, and still have in a box) was a Tandy HX1000 with 2 3.5” disk drives. I had Microsoft Works and DOS 3.11 which was built into the ROM of the machine. So, no updates. And Works was great for me, a little word processing, a little bit of spreadsheet, all basic functions and perfect for my purposes at the time.

Anyway, sorry about the computer talk. Just reminiscing the good old days.