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| | VisiCalc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet program available for personal computers. | | | It is generally considered to be the application that turned the microcomputer from a hobby for computer enthusiasts into a serious business tool. | | | According to Bricklin, he was watching his university professor at Harvard Business School create a financial model on a blackboard. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisiCalc
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| | Apple II History Chap 18 |
| | VisiCalc was a way of using a computer that no one had ever thought of before, especially at the time when most computers were mainframes with limited access to the "average" user. | | | A major part of the answer to the question, "What can I do with this computer?" lies in whether or not the software program in question is so important or useful that it literally sells the computer. | | | Because of his programming background, he saw ways in which some of his class work could be simplified through the use of computers. |
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http://apple2history.org/history/ah18.html
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| | Brief History of Spreadsheets, v. 3.6 |
| | The market for electronic spreadsheet software was growing rapidly in the early 1980s and VisiCalc stakeholders were slow to respond to the introduction of the IBM PC that used an Intel computer chip. | | | Kapor was the VisiCalc product manager at Personal Software for about six months in 1980; he also designed and programmed Visiplot/Visitrend which he sold to Personal Software (VisiCorp)for $1 million. | | | In a related matter, Software Arts, the developerof the original VisiCalc spreadsheet software filed a separate action against Lotus claiming that Lotus 1-2-3 was an infringement of VisiCalc. |
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http://dssresources.com/history/sshistory.html
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| | Daniel Bricklin |
| | At the time VisiCalc was being developed, changes were being made in the hardware industry as well. | | | The idea for the project stemmed from Bricklin's belief that computers could be used in the business industry for more than just word processing. | | | If the computer industry is to grow in the future as it has so far, more people like Daniel Bricklin must step to the fore. |
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http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/BRICKLIN.Fleming.HTML
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| | Feature from PC Magazine: VisiCalc |
| | In 1979 Software Arts released VisiCalc, the "visible calculator" for the Apple II that convinced many people that there might be some use for a personal computer. | | | VisiCalc's set of numeric-only functions includes simple items like SUM, MAX, and AVERAGE, as well as LOOKUP and common trigonometric and logarithmic functions. | | | You can format numbers as integer, decimal, scientific, or "graph." We used this last format, which displays a row of asterisks as long as the number, to create a graphical sine table. |
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1921452,00.asp
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| | Define VisiCalc - a definition from Whatis.com |
| | VisiCalc not only exploited the computer to automatically update a spreadsheet but allowed the user to immediately see all the changes. | | | Very popular among early personal computer users, it could also be said to have been the first killer app. | | | Many people bought computers just so they could use VisiCalc. |
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http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci970698,00.html
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| | Implementing VisiCalc |
| | The goal was to have an interactive help systems that allowed you to see the full names of commands and the keyboard options at any point but we estimated it would have taken 2000 bytes to implemented an interactive help system and that was an unaffordable luxury. | | | Since we didn't know where VisiCalc interrupted we couldn't assume it was safe to continue and only allowed the user to save the spreadsheet at that point. | | | This was a real pain because I had to find books on such functions and how to compute them for the appropriate precision and range of values and all this had to be done in very little space. |
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http://www.frankston.com/?name=ImplementingVisiCalc
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| | VisiCalc and Bloatware |
| | Is Microsoft Excel XP that much more functional than VisiCalc to justify the couple hundred megabytes of disk space it occupies? | | | I wonder: will Microsoft Excel XP run on a computer 22 years from now? | | | You can run it under Windows or DOS. |
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http://www.bobcongdon.net/blog/2003/10/visicalc-and-bloatware.html
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| | Three Minutes: Godfathers of the Spreadsheet |
| | After writing VisiCalc, Bob Frankston went on to pioneer early e-mail at Lotus, pen computing applications at Slate, and "IP everywhere" networking at Microsoft. | | | Dan Bricklin: Those were the days when we believed in the PC and the personal use of computing, and society hadn't accepted it yet. | | | Plus you had to buy a computer to use it. |
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http://pcworld.about.com/news/Jun032004id116166.htm?...+analysis+software
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| | Software pioneer Bricklin tackles wikis CNET News.com |
| | In 1979, Bricklin released VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet for personal computers. | | | Currently in alpha--though a stable beta version is expected by the end of February--WikiCalc is a general purpose tool developed with AJAX that runs either locally or off a server on Windows, Mac OS X, Unix or Linux. | | | Now he's close to finishing the beta for WikiCalc, an open-source, browser-based collaboration tool that mimics the functionality of a spreadsheet while leveraging the technology of wikis, which let anyone, anywhere manipulate data across the Web. |
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http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-6040867.html
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| | Attached > Computer history > “What is this VisiCalc, anyway?” |
| | Attached > Computer history > “What is this VisiCalc, anyway?” | | | In addition to VisiCalc, there are other programs of this type available. | | | Usually the answer to that question is simply stated: VisiCalc is an electronic spread sheet. |
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http://www.aresluna.org/attached/computerhistory/articles/spreadsheets/whatisthisvisicalcanyway
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| | The man who made PCs useful CNET News.com |
| | VisiCalc inspired mass purchases of the Apple II, kick-starting the personal computer revolution. | | | Some know me for my work in pen computing when I was at Slate. | | | There are others who know me for the Demo program that was used for prototyping software. |
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http://news.com.com/2009-1082-233609.html?legacy=cnet
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| | Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment |
| | The story of VisiCalc is the stuff of software-industry legend: It is widely viewed as the original "killer app" for personal computing (though Simonyi said that that term was actually first applied to Lotus 1-2-3 and only later retroactively extended to VisiCalc itself). | | | People would see a demo of the spreadsheet, or see a friend using it, and decide to go out and buy a computer so they could use it. | | | But I did head down to Silicon Valley last night for a special event hosted by the Computer History Museum. |
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http://blogs.salon.com/0000014/2003/04/09.html
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| | This particular article illustrates how Bricklin came up with the idea of the VisiCalc and more importantly how he created the basis of numerical computer software that is now used today. | | | When dealing with the invention of the VisiCalc and his software companies, here are just a few accomplishments: Dan Bricklin, along with friend Bob Frankenstein, founded Software Arts in 1978 In that same year the VisiCalc Calculator Program was invented. | | | Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankensten worked together and programmed the VisiCalc prototype using Apple Basic on an Apple II Computer. |
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http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~br295111/project1.doc
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| | MacKiDo/History/Gates_a_Genius |
| | Basically a spreadsheet allowed for business people to lay out numbers into columns and make the computer add them up for you, enabling it to do all sorts of wonderful things (for accountants and business people). | | | It not only sold a ton of copies of itself, but people bought computers (Apple&) just to run VisiCalc on. | | | This package revolutionized Microcomputers and brought them from hobby devices into many more businesses and far more homes -- and seriously contributed to the success of Apple&; (and Apple Computers). |
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http://www.mackido.com/History/Gates_a_Genius.html
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| | How to Back-up your PC VisiCalc disk How to Back-up your PC VisiCalc disk Dual drive disk |
| | But don't try to add other files to the disk as there are copyable four programs on the disk which do not appear in the directory. | | | This disk should contain the DOS system files (format /s) and any.BAT file (required to exit VisiCalc sometimes). | | | How to Back-up your PC *VisiCalc disk _____________________________________ How to Back-up your PC *VisiCalc disk Dual drive disk copy procedure: The following technique will convert your Visicalc disk to a normal, copyable disk. |
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http://www.skepticfiles.org/cowtext/comput~1/vcbackup.htm
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| | Apple Computer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It had an open architecture, used color graphics, and most importantly, had an elegantly designed interface to a floppy disk drive, something only mainframes and minis had used for storage until then. | | | Another key to success was the software: the Apple II was chosen by entrepreneurs Daniel Bricklin and Bob Frankston to be the desktop platform for the first "killer app" of the business world — the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. | | | That created a phenomenal business market for the Apple II, and the corporate presence attracted many software and hardware developers to the machine. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer
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| | 1978 Visicalc |
| | VisiCalc was the first electronic spreadsheet and was responsible for much of the early success of Apple Computer Corporation. | | | Bricklin and his partner Bob Frankston created VisiCalc for the Apple II in 1979. |
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http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/faculty/daigle/project1/78danb.htm
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| | InformationWeek Open-Source Development Renowned Software Developer Tackles Open-Source Legalities February 15, 2005 |
| | In addition to Software Garden and VisiCalc developer Software Arts Inc., Bricklin founded Slate Corp. in 1990, a developer of pen computing apps, and Trellix Corp. in 1995. | | | Bricklin says consulting to companies about open-source software development led him to realize that developers need to better understand intellectual-property issues--and take them more seriously. | | | But after a legal dispute with the software's publisher and competition from Lotus' 1-2-3 spreadsheet, the program disappeared from the market in the mid-'80s. |
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http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=60400808
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| | The History of Zork |
| | PS had several good features: it was the first true publisher of software developed by others; it was the leading publisher of computer games at the time; and it had strong ties to Software Arts Inc., where VisiCalc was invented (_requiescant_in_pace_), and where Zork I was demonstrated in February 1980. | | | Joel contacted Microsoft, but they were already publishing the original "Colossal Cave" adventure game -- the one that inspired Zork -- and by the time Zork fan Bill Gates heard of our offer, Infocom was deep in negotiations with Personal Software Inc. (PS). | | | ** In December 1984, after a long legal tangle with Software Arts over VisiCalc, Visicorp eventually merged into one of its own spin-off companies and disappeared. |
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http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/Articles/NZT/zorkhist.html
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| | BYTE.com |
| | My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it is theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++. | | | Quite possibly the program responsible for the `80's Wall Stree t frenzy: VisiCalc on the Apple II. |
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http://www.byte.com/art/9509/img/505041b0.htm
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| | Anything Under the Sun Made By Man: What if VisiCalc was Patented? |
| | How the technology would have developed is pure speculation, but there is a case supporting the view that more dramatic changes would have occurred. | | | Many articles about software patents refer to the fact that Dan Bricklin was not able to patent VisiCalc. | | | Once a viable formula was found in VisiCalc, the competitors were more apt to emulate the formula than they were to radically change or improve on it. |
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http://www.krajec.com/blog/archives/2005/08/what_if_visical.html
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| | VisiCalc Executable for the IBM PC |
| | For a list of some sites with old software and/or history, see Other History Sites. | | | This version of the program is very similar to the original VisiCalc that first came out on the Apple II in 1979. | | | VisiCalc Executable for the IBM PC VisiCalc Executable for the IBM PC |
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http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm
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| | Anything Under the Sun Made By Man: Patenting VisiCalc |
| | Having been through all of that, Dan Bricklin, one of the creators of VisiCalc, has taken a very pragmatic view of software patents: | | | VisiCalc was the original spreadsheet, which was later sold to Lotus and made Lotus 1-2-3 the de facto standard for number crunching. | | | Unfortunately for VisiCalc, they talked about getting a patent coverage at the time but their patent attorney counseled them not to do so, citing the state of the patent laws regarding software at that time. |
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http://www.krajec.com/blog/archives/2005/05/patenting_visic.html
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| | VisiCalc |
| | Developed by Dan Bricklin in 1978 in Apple Basic on an Apple 2, VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet type program to be developed. | | | Were you able to locate the answer to your questions? |
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http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/v/visicalc.htm
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| | Apple History Timeline |
| | He initially denies the possibility of being the father, but came to accept her. | | | : Daniel Fylstra writes CalcuLedger (later to become VisiCalc). |
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http://applemuseum.bott.org/sections/history.html
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| | Joho the Blog: VisiCalc History |
| | I enjoyed Dan Bricklin's history of the development of VisiCalc. | | | Comments: (you may use HTML tags for style) | | | Posted by D. Weinberger at April 9, 2003 07:56 AM Post a comment |
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