U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for January 26

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 26: LOTUS 1-2-3

Profile America — Saturday, January 26th.  On this date 30 years ago, the infant personal computer was empowered to become something much greater than a glorified word processor, with the release of the spreadsheet program Lotus 1-2-3.  The popular program drew acclaim as the first "killer application."  Finance and accounting workers were thus freed from hunching over ledger books and switched to hunching before a computer screen.  The name "1-2-3" stemmed from the product's integration of three main capabilities — spreadsheet, charting and graphing, and rudimentary database operations.  Today there are over 8,200 packaged software development firms in the U.S., employing almost 390,000 people.  You can find more facts about America's people, places and economy from the American Community Survey at www.census.gov.

Sources:  Chase's Calendar of Events 2012, p. 100
2007 Economic Census, NAICS 511210

Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotions of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on a monthly CD or on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Multimedia Gallery" by the "Newsroom" button). 

SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau

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