23 Aug
2004
23 Aug
'04
6:39 p.m.
On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 12:52, Mike Ford wrote:
AFAIK spreadsheets are a fairly old engineering
practice, originally done
manually on paper and slowly ported to automation and computers. What about
the old accounting machines, they are sort of spreadsheets.
Tabular data on paper is probably almost as old as paper. Certainly 17th
century. Mathematical/navigational/astrological (aka astronomical)
tables, for example.