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# Memocalc

I have mentioned [MemoCalc](http://localhost/product/memocalc/) before in [ZXzine](http://localhost/category/periodicals/zxzine/), but with the focus of this newsletter being applications that are still usable today, I needed to bring up MemoCalc.

In the early days of computers, word processors, spreadsheets and databases were the three main applications that all computers had. Sinclair released Vu-Calc from PSION. It was a very simple spreadsheet with a lot of limitations.

MemoTech released MemoCale about a year after [Vu-Calc](http://localhost/tag/vu-calc/) was released. The one main difference between the two spreadsheets is the MemoCalc can use all of the built-in nath functions on the ZX81, allowing for fairly complex formulas.