VisiCalc: Information from Its Creators, Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston

Re:VisiCalc: Information from Its Creators, Dan Bricklin and... by jaclaz on Thursday August 19, 2021 @04:55AM (#28231732)

I narrowly "missed" visicalc, as by the time I had a IBM compatible PC the "real thing" was already Lotus 1-2-3.

But some years later, in win 3.x times, I had to use it as there were some valuable spreadsheet that needed to be "translated" to Excel, those were fun times, the actual executable being so small and still capable of doing "amazing" things.

BTW, and as a side note, in Windows times and before Excel 95 came out (probably also after it was released), the "best" spreadsheet around was (IMHO) the very little known Borland Quattro:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quattro_Pro

that - besides the name - was the more natural successor to Lotus 1-2-3.

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Re:VisiCalc: Information from Its Creators, Dan Bricklin and... by Torwald on Thursday August 19, 2021 @08:47AM (#28233139)

> that - besides the name - was the more natural successor to Lotus 1-2-3

Quattro means four, so the name is perfect.

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Re:VisiCalc: Information from Its Creators, Dan Bricklin and... by jaclaz on Saturday August 21, 2021 @08:18AM (#28256372)

Sure, I meant that it was the natural successor not only because of the name (that was clearly chosen for that).

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Re:VisiCalc: Information from Its Creators, Dan Bricklin and... by webwanderings on Thursday August 19, 2021 @08:27AM (#28232930)

Quattro pro was indeed very shiny and fast compared to anything else back then.

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