The Very First Version of Xcelsius?

It turns out that dashboards like Xcelsius have their roots all the way back in 1939 — in cardboard, at least!  (Click on the image to get a bigger version)

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Thanks to Modern Mechanix blog: “Yesterday’s Technology, Today!”

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5 Responses to “The Very First Version of Xcelsius?”
  1. Deborah says:

    This is an excellent find. We thought we were so cool for having interactive charts but noooo, granny was doing it decades ago.

  2. Hi Timo,
    Have you seen the Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS dashboards, circa 1984?
    http://www.exceluser.com/dash/firstdash.htm
    Gareth

  3. Timo Elliott says:

    Gareth,
    Gosh! I DO remember now — I even built something similar using a mainframe reporting system when I worked at Shell in ’88! Thanks!

  4. Olivier Demeusy says:

    Hi Timo
    What about the very first way of submitting a Google Search ?
    http://data.boomerang.nl/b/boomerang/image/google-classic/s1024/3.jpg
    :-D
    Olivier on April 1st…

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