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Subject: [OM] Re: Anybody using Geniune Fractals?
From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:43:51 +0100
If you want to revisit pleasures past, Chuck, try here for a version which
runs on a modern PC:
http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm

Sorry, no Mac version, it seems (perverse, no?) 

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Piers 
         

-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Chuck Norcutt
Sent: 13 August 2007 13:38
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Anybody using Geniune Fractals?

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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