2004/06/10 Visicalc
© June 2004 Tony Lawrence
The grand-daddy of spreadsheets, and still available today in its original glory: VisiCalc Executable for the IBM PC.
Another early spreadsheet was Multiplan, which really was quite advanced for its day, offering linked sheets and other powerful concepts. See A Brief History of Spreadsheets
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VisiCalc answered the often-heard question of the 1970's about microcomputers: "What are they good for?"
--BigDumbDinosaur
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