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The First Killer App: VisiCalc

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the before-excel-before-lotus dept.

Sabah Arif writes "The first electronic spreadsheet, VisiCalc, helped transform the Apple II from a home computer into a business computer. Without VisiCalc, it is possible IBM would not have introduced the IBM PC in 1981. Read about the software at VisiCalc's creator Dan Bricklin's site and a brief history at Braeburn."

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  1. Re:The spreadsheet lineage by kfg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ". . .to put it another way, what feature of Excel is still a bit clunky to use?"

    Its license.

    KFG

  2. Say what you will about DOS/Win3.1/98/ME/NT/2k/xp by syntap · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Visicalc still runs on all of them.

    http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm