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Re:VisiCalc: Information from Its Creators, Dan Bricklin and... by eplanit on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @09:30PM (#28229334)
Dan Bricklin also published "Dan Bricklin's Demo Program" in the 1980s, which my team at IBM used quite a bit. It was for creating functional mockups of DOS (pre Windows) applications. We found it very useful in producing an interactive app mockup with which we could solidify agreement on requirements.

He acknowledges its existence, but doesn't have artifacts from it. As I recall, the box (as software was packaged then) had a large tomato on it (his company was Software Garden).

http://www.bricklin.com/softwaregarden.htm

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Re:VisiCalc: Information from Its Creators, Dan Bricklin and... by tyingq on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @11:45PM (#28230116)
There's a manual (with the tomato picture) in the 7z file here: https://dl-alt1.winworldpc.com/Dan%20Bricklins%20Demo%20II%2...
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Re:VisiCalc: Information from Its Creators, Dan Bricklin and... by cube00 on Thursday August 19, 2021 @08:03AM (#28232751)
That link didn't work for me but the links off the main page did for anyone else interested: https://winworldpc.com/product/dan-bricklins-demo/ii-v2

If you want to run it, DosBox with the "imgmount -t floppy" command works with the img files.

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