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Slashdot Article: Implementing VisiCalc
- Subject: Slashdot Article: Implementing VisiCalc
- From: salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)
- Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 21:59:17 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: USS Voyager NCC-74656, Delta Quadrant
- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.sys.apple2:29621
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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.
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