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Posted on 12/07/2009 11:03:42 PM PST by Swordmaker
"In the classroom at Harvard Business School where Dan Bricklin came up with the idea for an electronic spreadsheet, there now hangs a plaque that designates the resulting software program as the 'original killer app of the information age,'" Scott Kirsner reports for Boston.com.
"Bricklin and his colleague Bob Frankston formed a company in 1979, Software Arts, which would eventually sell the VisiCalc spreadsheet program for $99. It ran on a new 'personal computer' called the Apple II," Kirsner reports.
"Thirty years later, Bricklin is now selling a $1.99 app for the iPhone called Dan Bricklin's NoteTaker," Kirsner reports. "It debuted last Friday on Apple's iTunes Store, and is climbing up the list of most-popular productivity apps sold through the online store."
Direct link via YouTube here.
Kirsner reports, "Bricklin told me he has been interested in developing a mobile app for some time; his last big project was SocialCalc, a collaborative online spreadsheet that is being marketed by Palo Alto-baed SocialText and may soon be included on the One Laptop Per Child initiative's low-cost laptops. He considered developing for the Palm Pre and Google's Android operating system, but instead chose the iPhone since Apple's customers had already proven their willingness to pay for all kinds of software."
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what up bro
Everyone who USED Visicalc raise your hand.
Lotus123?
(LOL)
??? I said what up
Wow.
On my 386.
>>On my 386.<<
Winchester Hard Disk and 35 Mhz CPU — State Of The Art! And 5-1/4” floppies — none of them 8” floppies for us!
wow, a 20 meg hard drive!
My hand is up... used it on an Apple II in 1979 through about 1981.
Lotus 1,2,3 wasn't released until 1983 and was developed out of Visicalc which Mitch Kapor bought from Bricklin in late 1981.
700,000 copies of Visicalc were sold... but it was slow and a bit buggy being the first. More efficient clones were better and took the market away from Visicorp. The most obviously successful was Excel written for Apple's Mac and then ported to Windows, it seized the market from everybody. Since nobody had invented the idea of patenting software ideas back then, Bricklin didn't patent the software spreadsheet so Supercalc, Multicalc, Lotus, Appleworks, et alia did not have to pay any royalties to Bricklin for his brilliant insight and the rest is history.
[raises hand]
Lotus123?
[raises hand again]
And I'd raise my hand for Quattro Pro and SuperCalc as well.
Hey
Me, for one... it's late...
Visicalc on an Apple II.
SuperCalc on a Z-80 with CP/M.
Lotus 123 on an 8088 (the original IBM PC).
lol..
Do they even need a reason? Do they know something i don’t? But how could that be when they can’t even think?
Anon will fight.
35 MHz? Try 4.77 MHz (the original 8088).
I have a 10 megabyte hard drive, one of the first 3-1/2 hard drives, back when everything else was 5-1/4 hard drives and 5 megabytes.
And yes, that is NOT past tense. I still have my original PC in storage. It still worked the last time I turned it on.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/note-taker-lite/id342311693?mt=8&uo=6
Note that this will start iTunes. If you don't already have iTunes installed, it's probably not going to work.
>> 35 MHz? Try 4.77 MHz (the original 8088).
I have a 10 megabyte hard drive, one of the first 3-1/2 hard drives, back when everything else was 5-1/4 hard drives and 5 megabytes.
And yes, that is NOT past tense. I still have my original PC in storage. It still worked the last time I turned it on.<<
Oh man, now I gotta go back look stuff up. Are you sure that was/is an AT? The hard drive tells me it was, but I am thinking 4 Mhz is too slow. But that is my memory which has gone the opposite way — 1 Ghz back then and now I can squeeze double digits if I have to... :)
I have an old AT in my storage that I may fire up this weekend just for fun to see if it works...)
>>And I’d raise my hand for Quattro Pro and SuperCalc as well.<<
DBase 2? :) Actually, ahead of its time...
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