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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:How many Visicalc stories do we need? by Anonymous+Luddite · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How many Visicalc stories do we need? There's one here , one here, and one here. What's new in this story that isn't covered in-depth in the others?

    Posting stories about old technology allows us old guys to fill the aching need we have to tell you how l33t we were before most of the /. crowd was out of diapers.

    You know; "The older I get, the better I was"

    Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to reminisce about wordstar, acoustic couplers and hard sectored 8 inch floppies.. .. oh the l33tness of it all.

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