[Someone]

> This a good article with some fascinating history.

Indeed. I don’t think it’s all correct, though. On Visicalc, it says “The grid cells couldn’t be styled with borders for presentation purposes, the values couldn’t be formatted, and the tables couldn’t even be printed”

I think I even the first version had (limited, of course) formatting support.

http://www.bricklin.com/history/refcard3.htm says the “/F” command allowed setting justification and setting the number format to, for example, dollars and cents.

It is for version 1.35, but I think even the first version shipped supported at least showing dollars and cents.

[wglb]

Thanks for noting this.

While the article is overall good, there is a bunch of history that is not covered, or covered too briefly.