VisiCalc was a ‘killer app’ years ahead of its time, and still says much about the way we understand computers Tidying my office the other day, as one does at this time of year, I came upon a shabby, ...

Much of the early success of consumer electronics giant Apple Inc. was due to the demand of businesses for the Apple II home computer to run the VisiCalc spreadsheet software application. VisiCalc and ...

Dan Bricklin first came up with the idea of an electronic spreadsheet while he was at Harvard Business School in 1978. He later joined forces with Bob Frankston and Dan Fylstra to publish the ...

Steven Levy reminded me that in 1979, VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program for personal computers and the app that turned the Apple II into a serious business machine. Here’s a DOS copy you can run ...

In the summer of 1978, a Harvard student named Dan Bricklin was cycling along a path in Martha's Vineyard, when he had a big idea. As an MBA student, he was being taught to do financial planning using ...

If you know your computer history, you know that VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet designed for personal computers, put the PC on business users' radars. Created by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston in ...

During the dawn of the PC era, a single program was touted as the “killer app” that fired the market for personal computers. That program was a spreadsheet called VisiCalc. Now, another spreadsheet ...

While VisiCalc let you import data from other places, [later] spreadsheet programs let you bring data in and out and created a GUI that showed grids and let you play with fonts. Lotus and Microsoft ...