Visicalc

Summary

In 1979 a small company released the world's first "killer app" for the then tiny personal computer market. A look at the original electronic spreadsheet " to the channel! youtube.com/channel/UCb0ps9eCp0y6yP1Xg4sDDFw?sub_confirmation=1 In 1978, ... [Recorded on 2003-04-08] In the mid-1970s, Harvard Business School student Dan Bricklin sought a way to quicken the tedious ... In the spring of 1978, a business school student at Harvard named Dan Bricklin watched his professor erase and recalculate a ... Steve Jobs discusses the importance of the spreadsheet What if one simple $100 computer program helped transform the personal computer from a hobbyist toy into an essential business ... Dan Bricklin changed the world forever when he codeveloped 0:00 Lotus's $495 spreadsheet empire 1:14 Nobody needed an Apple computer... until one tiny program appeared. In 1979, two little-known programmers created In 1978, Dan Bricklin, a student at Harvard Business School, sat watching his professor manually recalculate financial projections ... Believe it or not, there was a time when our computers were incapable of functioning a calculator, a time before Microsoft ...