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Lucid 3D comes with a reference manual in the form of ... Lucid 3D can display up to nine overlapping spreadsheet windows
- ↑ "Lucid 3-D 2.x". WinWorld.
Lucid 3-D 2.x. Lucid 3-D, created by PCSG, Inc. and sold by DacEasy, Inc., is a spreadsheet program for MS-DOS
- ↑ "Lucid 3-D Professional Spreadsheet for Home And Office".
REVIEW: Lucid 3-D for Windows is easy to learn, takes full advantage of Windows, designed to make 3-D charts look good, and features over 50 templates.
- ↑ "Lucid announces Windows version of spreadsheet". NLA.gov.au.
- ↑ "About the Ezian Company".
In 1983, Redman was the founder of PCSG, later named Lucid Corporation, ...
- ↑ "LUCID CONFERENCE - MODEL 100 SIG August 3,1986".
Redman and Michael Stanford Co-founders of Portable Computer Support Group .. (PCSG)
- ↑ "Lucid's History".
... they incorporated as PCSG corporation (Portable Computer Support Group).
- ↑ Bryan, Marvin (February 6, 1989). "Multidimensional concept gains momentum". PC Week. Ziff-Davis. 6 (5): 106 et seq. – via Gale.
- ↑ "Lucid 3-D VERSION 1.22". InfoWorld . January 16, 1989.
Lucid 3-D is the only major memory- resident spreadsheet available for the PC. The product was originally developed in 1984 as ...
- ↑ italicized is the heading of pages 2 & 3 of a four page ad published September 1988.
- ↑ PC Magazine, Sept. 29,'87/p.29, Oct. 27,'87/p.88, Nov. 10,'87/p.90
- ↑ "Open LCW files - File extension LCW".
.lcw - Lucid 3-D Spreadsheet. LCW file is a Lucid 3-D Spreadsheet. Lucid 3-D is a low cost spreadsheet program with several unique features
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