I participated in this event last week at the Computer History Museum.
There were a couple of articles to come out of it: Scott Rosenberg blogged it and Mike Langberg had a piece in Saturday's San Jose Mercury News.
As well, Bob Frankston wrote an interesting piece on implementing VisiCalc.
Posted by mitch@osafoundation.org at April 16, 2003 12:20 PMAh, that brings back memories. The very first time I was put on a personal computer, it was an Apple2e. And there was this mostly blank screen in front of me. It didn't make much sense. Then I pushed some arrow keys and saw something. Didn't know what. Finally I said this must do something. So I clicked on every key until the slah key finally gave me a menu. Turns out that visicalc was on the machine but I didn't ever hear of it or know what it was.
Hey, I was a kid. Never heard of a spreadsheet, never saw one. Couldn't begin to imagine what it was. After a lot of guesses I managed to figure out what the darn thing was and started to do baseball stats on it to help me with stratomatic.
I feel kind of sad that a pioneering effort like visicalc is no longer around, but I guess them's the breaks...
Posted by: GilbertZ at April 23, 2003 07:45 PM
Nice blog
Posted by: ip address at May 4, 2003 12:26 AM