WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
LOTUS 1-2-3
Profile America — Thursday, January 26th. On this date 34 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 PC "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. It could also perform some word processing functions. Today there are nearly 9,200 software publishers in the U.S., employing 442,000 people in the $171 billion per year business. You can find more facts about America's people, places and economy, from the American Community Survey, at www.census.gov.
Sources:
Debut/accessed 11/7/2016: http://mentalfloss.com/article/48627/lotus-1-2-3-three-decades3
Software publishing/County Business Patterns/NAICS 511210:
http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/BP/2014/00A1//naics~511210
Software revenues/Economic Census/NAICS 511210:
http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ECN/2012_US/00A1//naics~511210
Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotion of the U.S. Census Bureau. Statistics and accounts drawn from cited non-Census sources are employed for illustrative or narrative purposes, and are not attested to by the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Audio" in the "Library" pull-down menu).
SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau
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