Was "that board" the same as the first MS product I ever used? A Z80 card
for the II+ permitting it to run CP/M, and thus dBaseII. Could that truly
have been a quarter century ago, before the OM-2S was released?
--
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Moose
Sent: 13 August 2007 08:12
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Anybody using Geniune Fractals?
--snip
Visicalc was the ground breaker that created the visual, interactive
spreadsheet metaphor on a computer. It was very possibly as important as the
Apple II is creating the home computer as tool, rather than toy. There may
well not have been an IBM PC (for better or worse) without it. And it was
Dan Bricklin's brainchild and the original "killer app". Even MS had a
spreadsheet, MultiPlan, before Lotus. I've used them. And boy was that board
to get more columns of letters (120?) on the II+ a touchy thing.
--snip
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