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Boeing Calc 3.00E

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edited November 14 in Product Comments
imageBoeing Calc 3.00E

Boeing Calc was a spreadsheet package written by Boeing Computer Services, an independent subsidiary of aviation manufacturer Boeing. It had originally been developed as an in-house accounting tool, but was launched as a commercial product in April 1985 for IBM 4300 mainframes running IBM MVS and IBM PC microcomputers running MS-DOS. Boeing Calc was notable for introducing the concept of 3D spreadsheets. Often Boeing Graph was sold alongside Boeing Calc.

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  • SAHHANSAHHAN
    The package contains the "README-M. IKE" in the file, they actually wrote a message to Mike.

    "MIKE, PLEASE GIVE BOB A COPY OF THIS. ALSO PUT THE FILE ON DISK 2 CALLED
    BCALC.PRO IN THE SAME DIRECTORY AS THE PROGRAM. THIS IS A HARD DISK ONLY
    PROGRAM. THE TWO PROGRAM DISK MERGE INTO A 400+K EXECUTION FILE."

    It's like a time capsule from 1986 :)




  • 02k-guy02k-guy
    "It's like a time capsule from 1986"

    Thanks for bringing attention to that. One of the fun things (for awhile), were the easter eggs devs would place in their softs. Little tidbits like you found help remind us that the software was made by actual people. And that what it did, and how it did it, reflected on their personalities.

    Today, software seems scrubbed of all personality - and uniqueness.
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