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Early PC's had word processing and spreadsheets. They were immediately useful. Checkout WordPerfect, pfs:Write, Lotus 123, and VisiCalc on Wikipedia.
by stevewilhelm 14y ago
Early PC's had word processing and spreadsheets. They were immediately useful. Checkout WordPerfect, pfs:Write, Lotus 123, and VisiCalc on Wikipedia.
- lifeisstillgood 14y agoTo be more accurate, and pertinent, early adopters of PCs wrote software that made the PC useful. The PC did not arrive with VisiCalc, or even an OS. We are still at Altair II level - where looking at a wooden box with switches on it makes Lolcats quite hard to imagine. Just sail west.
- milesskorpen 14y agoHigher-end 3d printers are already heavily used for prototyping and architectural design work, which puts them about on par with very early computers (I'm not referring to home PCs here).
- iamwil 14y agoYour comparison is wrong. For 3D printers, we're still at the hobby-ist level, trying to move to consumer. That means, we're still in the Altair trying to move to Apple IIe phase. During that time in computer's history, VisiCalc, WordPerfect, and Lotus123 hadn't been invented.