Spreadsheet Program Story
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Dan Bricklin
In 1978, a Harvard Business student named Dan Bricklin got tired of adding up columns of numbers and adding them up again after making a few changes. Just to assess the effect of the merger. Bricklin, who knew little about computers from summer jobs at Wang and other firms, came up with the idea of a spreadsheet program running on a personal computer.
Bob Frankston and Visicalc
Briclin’s teachers together with a programmer friend, Bob Frankston, produced Visicalc. It is a program for Apple II computer. This marks an important new chapter in American Enterprise. The Electronic Spredsheet.
Visicalc huge success
Visicalc was a huge success. More than 700,000 copies of the program eventually was sold and it was almost reponsible for the success of Apple II personal computer. By 1984 it disappeared when Lotus 1-2-3 was launched by IBM. It was integrated with what is clearly the clone of Visalc Spreadsheet.
Lotus 1-2-3 and Microsoft Excel
Many Innovations did came out, specially during the 90′s when the development of microchips were unstoppable, and so is the rapid development in various application programs. Finally, the year of the GUI’s (Graphical User Interface) desktop has arrived. The next decade now belongs to Microsoft Software king – Bill Gates. Then comes the birth of Microsoft Office Software which include the Microsoft Excel, which operates very similar to Lotus 1-2-3 but much faster and user-friendly because it works in a graphical desktop environment with it’s electronic input device companion – the witty mouse.
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