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OMNITAB(ID:559/omn007)
Statistical analysis and desk calculator
alternate simple viewCountry: United States
Designed 1963
Published: 1963
Genus: Columnar sheets
Sammet category: Specialised Languages
The original electronic worksheet
"OMNITAB [...] is designed to provide a close parallel to the modus operandi in carrying out calculations with a desk calculator and a multi-columned (and multi-lined) worksheet. "
"OMNITAB simulates desk computing in that it replaces the desk calculator, the mathematical tables and the multicolumn worksheet. The user is to regard the machine as a 46-column by 101-row tablet on which carry out its work."
Related languages
| AARDVARK | → | OMNITAB | Influence | |
| BMD | → | OMNITAB | Influence | |
| BOUMAC | → | OMNITAB | Influence | |
| COGO | → | OMNITAB | Influence | |
| DAM | → | OMNITAB | Influence | |
| OMNIFORM | → | OMNITAB | Evolution of | |
| OMNITAB | → | IMP | Implementation | |
| OMNITAB | → | OMNITAB II | Evolution of | |
| OMNITAB | → | PRECISE | Enhancement of | |
| OMNITAB | → | REFORM | Evolution of | |
| OMNITAB | → | Resampling Stats | Influence | |
| OMNITAB | → | SHRIMP | Implementation | |
| OMNITAB | → | TABOL | Generalisation of |
Samples:
References:
in (1963) Datamation 9(3) March 1963
in Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Computing Sympos (1963) Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Computing Symposium on Statistics 1963 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, on October 21, 22 and 23,1963.
in Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Computing Sympos (1963) Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Computing Symposium on Statistics 1963 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, on October 21, 22 and 23,1963.
in Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Computing Sympos (1963) Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Computing Symposium on Statistics 1963 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, on October 21, 22 and 23,1963.
in Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Computing Sympos (1963) Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Computing Symposium on Statistics 1963 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, on October 21, 22 and 23,1963.
in Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Computing Sympos (1963) Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Computing Symposium on Statistics 1963 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, on October 21, 22 and 23,1963.
in Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Computing Sympos (1963) Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Computing Symposium on Statistics 1963 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, on October 21, 22 and 23,1963.
in Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Computing Sympos (1963) Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Computing Symposium on Statistics 1963 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, on October 21, 22 and 23,1963.
in Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Computing Sympos (1963) Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Computing Symposium on Statistics 1963 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, on October 21, 22 and 23,1963.
in (1972) Computers & Automation 21(6B), 30 Aug 1972
in (1974) ACM Computing Reviews 15(04) April 1974
in (1974) ACM Computing Reviews 15(04) April 1974
in (1974) ACM Computing Reviews 15(04) April 1974
in (1974) ACM Computing Reviews 15(04) April 1974
in (1974) ACM Computing Reviews 15(04) April 1974
in (1974) ACM Computing Reviews 15(04) April 1974
Resources
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NIST at 100: Foundations for progress
An Early Spreadsheet
More than a decade before spreadsheet software helped to launch the boom in personal computers (PCs), NIST published Omnitab, a computer program for statistical and numerical analysis that had many attributes of a spreadsheet.
Conceived by the Institute?s Joseph Hilsenrath and based in part on colleague Joseph Wegstein?s earlier work on a tabular computing scheme, Omnitab was written to automate routine programming tasks?such as handling data input and output and producing graphs?for NIST physicists, chemists, and engineers, who were thus freed to concentrate on higher level science. Omnitab proved so helpful that its use extended far beyond NIST. For about 10 years after its 1966 publication, it was popular with statisticians in agricultural research, private industry, and universities. Foreign-language editions appeared as well; the program could accept simple commands in French, German, and even Japanese.
Omnitab was like a spreadsheet because it had an extensive and accurate math facility, a macro language, and a graphical output. Most importantly, it created a tableau in which the entries were calculated from input values. However, operations were defined for entire columns. VisiCalc, the ?killer application? business spreadsheet unveiled in 1979 for PCs, allowed functions to be entered in individual cells and was more
dynamic and interactive.
Omnitab initially used an old programming language and did not migrate to PCs until after its heyday. But its influence persists today in the form of Minitab, a PC-based commercial software package for teaching statistics and for research in business and manufacturing.
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Not the First Spreadsheet
Not the First Spreadsheet
You keep printing the statement that Dan Bricklin wrote the first spreadsheet program ("The 20 Most Important People," September). No doubt VisiCalc was the first successful commercial spreadsheet, but hardly the first spreadsheet. In the early '70s, I used a mainframe program called Omnitab II, from what was then the National Bureau of Standards. It used a fully developed spreadsheet metaphor, but given the scientific and engineering emphasis of the program, it was referred to as a "lab notebook." The mathematical facility was extensive and accurate. It had a macro language, and it produced graphical output. In short, it had all the attributes of the modern spreadsheet program.
Steve Tedder
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