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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."

2 of 305 comments (clear)

  1. More information on the Apple IIe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Check out this link for some background into how these things were used in schools back in the day.

  2. Re:some things never change by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    [manager]Wow, you are so smart.[/manager]
    [reality]You are a pompous, self-righteous jag-off.[/reality]