Re: The IBM PC's slavish devotion to the Apple II

["Sheldon Simms" <sheldonsimms@yahoo.com>]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:56:24 +0000, Bill Garber wrote:

> 
>> > Gee, Rich, try reading what you are commenting on. I NEVER said Lotus
>> > wrote VisiCalc (though the founder of Lotus did have a lot to do with
>> > Advanced VisiCalc for the ///), in fact, what I said was that Lotus
>> > BOUGHT VisiCalc.
>> >
>> >> Visicalc was the first spreadsheet, for any computer, and it
>> >> was the Apple ]['s killer app. I've still got Visicalc somewhere.
>> >>
>> >> Here's a source for more info...
>> >>
>> >>     http://www.bricklin.com/visicalc.htm
>> >>
> Please, anyone willing to "Sshhhhhhh" give me a copy of the Apple II
> version of VC, I'll gladly pay the shipping and cost of media. };-0

ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/utility/finance/visicalc 16.zip

I just tried it out, it seems to work.

-Sheldon