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>The year was 1986, pre-spreadsheets.

There were millions of spreadsheet users by 1986, as VisiCalc was released in 1979[0] and similar programs like SuperCalc[1] were also in use. They were both ported to IBM PC and saw significant use in the corporate world prior to and including 1986.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisiCalc

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperCalc



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