[Chickensoup]

A friend was the wife of one of the authors of VisiCalc.

[Neidermeyer]

A friend was the wife of one of the authors of VisiCalc.
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VisiCalc was one of IBM’s greatest blunders ... they didn’t see the potential in it (thought it was too “obvious”) and never copyrited it!!!!! So along come dozens of copycats ,, foxbase dbase excel etc. etc. ,,, BILLIONS of dollars lost.