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Forgotten: WingZ [1]. In an era when they were trying to combine spreadsheet + charts + database + who-the-hell-knows-what-else.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informix_Wingz

Wingz, in its brief era, was really nice. In-sheet graphics before Excel had them, and more intuitive too.

Turbo Pascal started to ship with an example spreadsheet program, as source. A co-worker took that source and ported it to a version of Pascal running on VAX/VMS. After that you could often see a VT-100 with a spreadsheet running, in his office.

I loved Quattro Pro. Version 1 was very good.