And within a few years, it was tech-industry roadkill. The story of VisiCalc, a humble spreadsheet program that set the tech world ablaze 40 years ago, has reverberated through the industry and ...

Facing a horde of competitors including VisiCalc (the original Apple II "killer app"), Multiplan (from Microsoft), Supercalc (running on CP/M) and Context MBA, 1-2-3 was an upstart, but it had an ...

By creating VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet, that's exactly what they did. Bricklin and Frankston would work at night because computer time was cheaper at night. They thought of it as a ...

Which of the following is the reason that the co-creator of VisiCalc did not patent VisiCalc? As software programs were not allowed to be patentable by the Supreme Court until after 1981, Bricklin was ...

It turns out necessity really can be the mother of invention. Just ask Dan Bricklin — who co-created VisiCalc, the first ...

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 ...

Into this argument steps Bob Frankston. The Visicalc co-founder has written a satire, in the tradition of Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, called Paying by the Stroll. In this essay the part of ...

As a result, we received the first electronic spreadsheet (VisiCalc), and it took the business world by storm. Our current spreadsheet king, Microsoft Excel, continues the legacy of VisiCalc ...

Countless millions of copies of popular spreadsheet programs—including VisiCalc, Lotus 1-2-3, SuperCalc and, later, Microsoft Excel and Borland’s Quattro Pro—were sold during these years ...