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Practice Listening: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers
ID: #43855
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Microsoft Windows
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If you look at why the majority of people have bought these things so far, there have been two real explosions that have propelled the industry forward. The first one really happened in 1977 and it was the spreadsheet I remember when Dan Fylstra, who ran the company that marketed the first spreadsheet. Walked into my office at Apple one day and pulled out this disc from his. Vest Pocket and said I have this incredible new programme. I call it a visual calculator. And. It became Visicalc, and that's what really drove propelled the apple to to, to the success it it achieved more than any other single event. And and with the the invention of Lotus 123. And I think it was 1982. That's what really propelled the IBM PC to the level of success that it achieved. So that was the first explosion was the spreadsheet. The the the second really big explosion in our our industry has been desktop publishing happened in 1985.
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