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Encyclopedia: VisiCalc

VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet program available for personal computers. It is generally considered to be the application that turned the microcomputer from a hobby for computer enthusiasts into a serious business tool.

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Bob Frankston

Bob Frankston is the co-creator with Dan Bricklin of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. He graduated in 1966 from Stuyvesant High School in New York City. He is also a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery...

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Dan Bricklin

Dan Bricklin is the co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from MIT and his MBA from Harvard University...

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1979 in science

km. Computer science VisiCalc becomes the first spreadsheet program. Awards Nobel Prizes...

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Microsoft Excel

as in the original spreadsheet, VisiCalc: the cells are organized in rows and columns, and contain... - (9.0) Excel 2002 - (10.0) Excel 2003 - (11.0) Competitors Lotus 1-2-3 MultiPlan VisiCalc...

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Killer application

A killer application (commonly shortened to killer app ) is a computer program that is so useful that people will buy a particular brand of computer simply to run that program. The first example of a killer app is generally agreed to be the VisiCalc spreadsheet on the Apple II platform. The...

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Lotus 1-2-3

Lotus 1-2-3 is a spreadsheet program from Lotus Software (now part of IBM). Once hugely popular, it did much to contribute to the success of the IBM PC in the corporate environment. 1-2-3 was released on January 26, 1983, started outselling then most popular VisiCalc the very same year, and for a...

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Lotus Improv

a spreadsheet should work. The original spreadsheet, VisiCalc, was based on the idea of replicating... copies of the VisiCalc concept (and thus the paper) which competed primarily on the number of cells... almost entirely on running on the IBM PC and being faster and having more cells than VisiCalc. Lotus set...

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Harvard Business School

, businessman and Mayor of New York City Dan Bricklin, co-creator of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program Jon...

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MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

MBA Dan Bricklin) of VisiCalc, the first computer spreadsheet There are several prestigious spinoff...

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Microcomputer

launch of the VisiCalc spreadsheet (for the Apple II) that first turned the microcomputer from a hobby...

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