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Subject: [OM] Re: Anybody using Geniune Fractals?
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:37:30 -0400
You're absolutely right.  I'd already forgotten Visicalc.  My memory is 
growing shorter and shorter.

Chuck Norcutt

Moose wrote:
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> Just call me respectful of the guy who invents something totally new. 
>>   
> Sure. But he didn't invent it. 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.

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