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Implementing VisiCalc

Posted by timothy on from the gnumeric's-great-grand-daddy dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Just when was the ""greed is good" era? by Planesdragon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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?

    No, that's the "public outrage over greed" era. During "Greed is Good", 'shrewd' deals like that would have been lauded by everyone who heard about them.

  2. Oh So He is to blame... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I remember a realtor once telling me not to spend less money because a bunch of foreigners would move in next to me and talk desperagingly about me in strange languages.

  3. because as we all know by geekoid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    no president besides Clinton did anything wrong.

    Interesting, you mention Enron, then refer to cClinton, yet you don't take a jabe at the current administration.

    apparently Nove Express is Dubya.

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  4. Re:fp by sco08y · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You failed it.