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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. Do you have any idea how much ... by burgburgburg · · Score: 1, Redundant

    pr0n and mp3s I'd have to delete to be able to download and run this program? 27,520 bytes ? What, I'm made of money? Who's got those sort of resources?