To: Borges; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; 5thGenTexan; AbolishCSEU; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; ...
You have to get several paragraphs into the article to learn that the first spreadsheet program, VisiCalc, was written for the Apple II computer.
“So he wrote a program for the new Apple II personal computer: an electronic spreadsheet.
His friend Bob Frankston helped him sharpen up the software - and, on 17 October 1979, VisiCalc went on sale.
Spreadsheets were only later ported to IBM and its clones. —PING!
Apple II and the
First Computeriszed Spreadsheet Ping!
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30 posted on
05/22/2019 10:44:12 AM PDT by
Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker
The program used backslash commands, in part because the programmer had a lifelong injury to one of his fingers. :^) It was the software that built the market for hardware, period.
43 posted on
05/22/2019 12:11:12 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: Swordmaker
The computer user group in Grand Rapids used to have a deep archive which included DOS 3.3 stuff such as WozCalc, a knockoff of Visicalc (Visicalc was copy protected, as were office software suites of that time, such as Incredible Jack).
63 posted on
05/23/2019 12:58:24 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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