Visicalc: Father Of The Spreadsheet

Oh, wow. I may still have a copy of that Visicalc reference card packed away somewhere.

taodude

My second job in the industry (after being a line technician for the Color Computer) was phone support for business software...including VisiCalc (and ProFile).

Opie

I used SuperCalc and I used it for everything. Even stuff that didn't require any math, lol.

@elitesoulman: exactly what i was thinking.

ninjajazza

I think I still have a copy of "Invisicalc," which was the the joke version. It is a 5.25" floppy with the magnetic medium removed.

Dacker

I still remember playiing around with that on my Apple II+.

Noobs-R-Us

There has got to be a vim plugin to do this...

Confuzius

And then someone ruined it with Merge.

Stikman008

If I could only remember how the darned thing worked, I could replace my Excel!



Then again, probably not!

I had a really great anecdote but lost all three paragraphs to a comments glitch. :(



Long story short: Those were interesting days.

Wow, very green and black. I was too young to use computers during the late 70's and early 80's, but can recall my uncle and older sister using those recoil spring back clanky beige keyboards. Blah.

I grew up with the computers that had white text on blue background "Amiga" and "Epson" era I presume. Also, the early Mac's that had that white "turtle" cursor where you had to move using X and Y axis coordinates. Man, now I'm starting to feel old.

LouisJebber

@elitesoulman: Do I take it you are an American ?

@IAmNotSam: Remember, these are 1979 prices, Im guessing this was a top of the line model back then.

Mmmm, visicalc, good times. I remember messing with my first spreadsheet on an Apple IIe, made up a sheet to calculate starship building for a play-by-mail game.



Play-by-mail game, roll that one around in your head for a while, hahaha. I kind of miss it.

bitgod

Damn, I've never been able to get a muck rake for less than $20. This guy must have negotiated a volume discount.

IAmNotSam

@elitesoulman:



Probably because the guy didn't own an apple II

mocax

@elitesoulman:

"This version of the program is very similar to the original VisiCalc that first came out on the Apple II in 1979." - from the DOS copy link in the article :)

tdk08

Does anyone else find the fact that this program was originally made for the Apple II, and that you are offering us a DOS version, ironic?