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    VisiCalc ("visible calculator") is the first spreadsheet computer program for personal computers, originally released for Apple II by VisiCorp on October...
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    ExecuCalc, from Parallax Systems, Inc.: Released in late 1982, ExecuCalc was the first mainframe "visi-clone" which duplicated the features of VisiCalc on...
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    1983, and immediately overtook Visicalc in sales. Unlike Microsoft Multiplan, it stayed very close to the model of VisiCalc, including the "A1" letter and...
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    released in 1983. Concurrently to the Lisa, VisiCorp (noted for the VisiCalc spreadsheet) was working on the Visi On GUI environment (first demonstrated at...
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    businessman and engineer who is the co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program. He also founded Software Garden, Inc.,...
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  • bad sectors and other methods of floppy disk identification. VisiCalc VisiCorp "Visicalc sales slip as founding firms wrangle - Dealers could get cold...
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    VisiCorp was an early personal computer software publisher. Its most famous products were Microchess, Visi On and VisiCalc. It was founded in 1977 by Dan...
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  • "VisiCalc is the first program available on a microcomputer that has been responsible for sales of entire systems", and Creative Computing's VisiCalc review...
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    SuperCalc is a CP/M-80 spreadsheet application published by Sorcim in 1980. VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet program but its release for the CP/M operating...
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    it took the market from Visicalc in the early 1980s. 1983, Dynacalc for OS-9 a Unix-like operating system, similar to VisiCalc. 1984, Lotus Symphony for...
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    for example, if a VisiCalc user suffers a spontaneous reboot, to recover data the user enters V+C+SPACE+✶ at TRSDOS Ready, and Visicalc restores the previous...
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    of the business world: VisiCalc, a spreadsheet. So important that the Apple II became what John Markoff described as a "VisiCalc accessory", the application...
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    business software for the Apple II, including the 1979 release of the popular VisiCalc spreadsheet, made the computer especially popular with business users and...
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    software engineer and businessman who co-created, with Dan Bricklin, the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. Frankston is also the co-founder of Software Arts...
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  • product was envisioned in 2005 by Bricklin, who 27 years earlier created VisiCalc, the first commercial spreadsheet program for the personal computer. Version...
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    program developed by Microsoft and introduced in 1982 as a competitor to VisiCalc. Multiplan was released first for computers running CP/M; it was developed...
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  • functionalities implemented in computer spreadsheets, with the initial version of VisiCalc (1979) including a LOOKUP function among its original 20 functions. This...
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  • development at VisiCorp, the distributors of the VisiCalc spreadsheet, and selling all his rights to Visi-Plot and Visi-Trend to Visi-Corp. Shortly after...
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  • Category:Spreadsheet software LANPAR (1969) Autoplan/Autotab (1968) - VisiCalc (1979) SuperCalc (1980) Multiplan (1982) Lotus 1-2-3 (1982) Microsoft Excel (1985)...
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  • eastern Texas Bob Frankston, co-creator of the first spreadsheet program, VisiCalc Frankton (disambiguation), various places worldwide Frankeston, a breed...
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    Steve Jobs expected hobbyists to purchase the Apple II, but because of VisiCalc and Disk II, small businesses purchased 90% of the computers. The Apple...
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    niche for itself in business, thanks to the industry's first killer app, VisiCalc, released in 1979. However, the Apple II would quickly be displaced for...
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  • about the Politicization of the PC Industry by Dan Fylstra. Photo of Dan Fylstra with VisiOn and VisiCalc – Computer History Museum Appearances on C-SPAN...
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    trend that continues to this day: (1977) CompuServe (1978) WordStar (1979) VisiCalc (1982) MicroProse, WordPerfect (1983) NetWare (1984) LaserJet, MacWorks...
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  • latter by software such as “killer app” spreadsheet applications, e.g. VisiCalc and Lotus 1-2-3, were so compelling that personal computers and word processing...
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  • efficient vehicle planned for 2010 Dan Bricklin (born 1951), co-programmer of VisiCalc Malcolm Bricklin (born 1939), businessman who built the Bricklin SV-1 car...
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    of development at VisiCorp, the distributors of the VisiCalc spreadsheet, and selling all his rights to VisiPlot and VisiTrend to VisiCorp. Shortly after...
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  • Inc. (the developers of the VisiCalc program) in the early 1980s. The specification was included in many copies of VisiCalc, and published in Byte Magazine...
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  • did not make significant inroads into minicomputer use until 1979, when VisiCalc prompted record sales of the Apple II on which it ran. The IBM PC introduced...
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    and professional market, when the spreadsheet program VisiCalc was launched in mid-1979. VisiCalc is credited as the defining killer app in the microcomputer...
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