Implementing VisiCalc

David Leppik writes "The author of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program, has an article about how it was designed. VisiCalc is why businesses started to take the Apple ][ (and personal computers in general) seriously. It also changed accounting forecasts forever, which triggered the investment boom that brought us the "greed is good" era. Oh, and you can still download VisiCalc in case you run DOS or Windows and have 27,520 bytes to spare."

Comments

Just when was the ""greed is good" era?

[Nova Express]

Would that be when corporations like Enron and Global Crossing were running accounting scams unchecked by the federal Government? When pardons and sleepovers in the Lincoln bedroom were for sale? When there was "no controlling legal authority" to keep you from receiving campaign donations from Buddhist temples? When was that again?

I look forward to the explanation of how VisiCalc led directly to the Clinton Years.