Re: Slashdot Article: Implementing VisiCalc

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Scott Alfter wrote:

>http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/1930248&mode=nested&tid=156
>
>    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.

Thanks for the article reference!

I've visited his site before and found it interesting, but was disappointed
that
he did not have the original Apple II version available for download.  It
should
not be difficult to remove the (rather early) copy protection so that it could
be experienced in an emulator.

-michael

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