You're absolutely right. I'd already forgotten Visicalc. My memory is
growing shorter and shorter.
Chuck Norcutt
Moose wrote:
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> Just call me respectful of the guy who invents something totally new.
>>
> Sure. But he didn't invent it. Visicalc was the ground breaker that
> created the visual, interactive spreadsheet metaphor on a computer. It
> was very possibly as important as the Apple II is creating the home
> computer as tool, rather than toy. There may well not have been an IBM
> PC (for better or worse) without it. And it was Dan Bricklin's
> brainchild and the original "killer app". Even MS had a spreadsheet,
> MultiPlan, before Lotus. I've used them. And boy was that board to get
> more columns of letters (120?) on the II+ a touchy thing.
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