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To: alpo

I've still got a few hundred cards, but I didn't realize an II+ would swallow them!

Ahh... Visicalc --- there's a good program.

You wouldn't believe the data analysis I did with that baby. It probably required about three times as many 'phantom' columns for the intermediate calculations as today's spreadsheets would require, but I did some good work on that. Really, though, most of my work today would be just fine with it. The graphics display would be a bit tough to massage into now, though.

Smiles...


21 posted on 04/16/2005 3:11:14 PM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: AFPhys
Ahh... Visicalc --- there's a good program. You wouldn't believe the data analysis I did with that baby. It probably required about three times as many 'phantom' columns for the intermediate calculations as today's spreadsheets would require, but I did some good work on that. Really, though, most of my work today would be just fine with it. The graphics display would be a bit tough to massage into now, though.

Mindblowing trivia: The PC version of VisiCalc is only 27.5K. There are pictures on this very thread bigger than that.

BTW, you can download and run a legal copy of the original VisiCalc. It's only the the PC version though; the author couldn't get permission from whoever owns the Apple II version now, I guess.

26 posted on 04/16/2005 3:36:03 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War (Proud Member of the WPPFF Death Cult - We're coming after YOU next!)
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