I learned, belatedly, that last October 17 was Spreadsheet Day, marking the 35th anniversary of VisiCalc, the Apple II program that started it all. This moved me to republish a long piece I wrote 30 ...

Much of the early success of consumer electronics giant Apple Inc. was due to the demand of businesses for the Apple II home computer to run the VisiCalc spreadsheet software application. VisiCalc and ...

Before Microsoft's Excel came about, a Harvard MBA student and his former MIT classmate built the first spreadsheet software for the Apple II. It was 1979 and Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston wanted to ...

January 2, 1979: Entrepreneurs Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston incorporate their company Software Arts to publish a program called VisiCalc. The first spreadsheet software for the Apple II, VisiCalc ...

Steven Levy reminded me that in 1979, VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program for personal computers and the app that turned the Apple II into a serious business machine. Here’s a DOS copy you can run ...

It was the first killer app, the spark for Apple’s early success and a trigger for the broader PC boom that vaulted Microsoft to its central position in business computing. And within a few years, it ...

This week marks the thirtieth anniversary of the public debut of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet and the personal computer industry’s original killer app. Co-creator Dan Bricklin has a post with some ...

With all the new programs, applications and devices being released on an almost daily basis, the spreadsheet's story and its legacy as a powerhouse could be lost. The story of the electronic ...