Started in the Civil Service in 1989 as the lowliest of the low. My first experience of a spreadsheet was some software called 20/20 (by Access Technology?) whi

Started in the Civil Service in 1989 as the lowliest of the low. My first experience of a spreadsheet was some software called 20/20 (by Access Technology?) which not only allowed me to play with numbers in various ways but also gave me macros which could be accessed via user-defined buttons/menus inserted into the spreadsheet itself. The software may have been on a computer accessed with a terminal/screen, because I remember when our office got our first desktop Apricots I'm pretty sure they came with Lotus123. Desktop PCs were rare until the new financial year came round and enough budget was found to give us all our own Apricot. A few years later they all got replaced by Dell PCs, by which time I had to go down to the smoking room for my cigarette break because the bosses also banned smoking-at-your-desk. One of my jobs was to check expense claims. I had to do that job using a huge brick of a calculator which dated from at least the mid 70s. Strange how that machine outlasted all the Apricots ...