Lucid 3-D
was a
spreadsheet
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package that began in the
MS-DOS
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era;
Windows
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support came later.
History
Sam Redman and Michael Stanford incorporated as PCSG corporation (Portable Computer Support Group).
Their Lucid 3-D spreadsheet was marketed by DAC.
Features
Lucid 3-D was considered noteworthy at the time for being "the only major memory-resident spreadsheet available for the PC."
The selling point of the product was being "three dimensional. ''Any cell'' of the spreadsheet ''can contain a complete other spreadsheet that you can access with a single key''stroke."
Another technical feature was what their ads called "not only minimal recalc, but background recalc"
The Windows versions could display "up to nine overlapping spreadsheet windows."
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File extension
Data files were stored using the extension ".lcw" (Dot LCW).
See also
* Spreadsheet
A spreadsheet is a computer application for computation, organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form. Spreadsheets were developed as computerized analogs of paper accounting worksheets. The program operates on data entered in cel ...
References
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