VisiCalc
product
3 mentions
3 recordings
first heard Apr 2024
last heard 12 Jan
↑2 vs the 12 months before
Spreadsheet application that was early PC killer app
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Peak in the week of 12 Jan — 1 mentions across 1 series.
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentAlex RampellThe a16z Show · Alex Rampell on Venture at Scale and Founder Incentives · 25:43 · 12 Jan
…I I published this chart with the help of of my friend ChatGPT of how long it took VisiCalc, which was the first spreadsheet that came out in 1979, to lose to Lotus 123, and then how long it took Lotus 123 to lose to Microsoft.…
Steve WozniakThe Knowledge Project · Steve Wozniak: The Engineer Who Built Apple [Outliers] · 37:05 · 4 Nov
…Because in Boston, Bob Frankston and Dan Bricklin had been working on something called VisiCalc, short for Visible Calculator, the world's first electronic spreadsheet, Excel's ancient ancestor.…
Ben GilbertAcquired · Microsoft Volume I · 2:13:54 · Apr 2024
…In 1979, kind of at the tail end of the 8-bit era, two programs come out for the Apple II, VisiCalc and WordStar. VisiCalc is the first software spreadsheet application, and WordStar is a word processor. These applications, by today's standards, are super simple, like Stone Age type stuff. But they're the first of their kind, particularly VisiCalc and the sp…
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