VisiCalc from Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston ; Copyright (C) 1980- Software Arts, Personal Software Inc. (later named VisiCorp.), Paladin Software, Lotus Software, Lotus Development Corporation and finally IBM ; in order of license dissemination#
The main goal of this chapter is to provide the user with informations and templates regarding the killer application Visicalc.#
Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston gave the Atariwiki the following info:
How I got permission to post VisiCalc (1999)
; Thanks you very much Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston for your outstanding application of all times. We really appreciate your help and support so much. :-)))
ATR Image#
Pictures#
Typical spreadsheet from Visicalc with a lot of basic functions
Typical spreadsheet from Visicalc with the LOOKUP function
Typical spreadsheet from Visicalc with the NPV function
Typical spreadsheet from Visicalc with a linear function and split windows
Typical spreadsheet from Visicalc with a logarithmic function and split windows
Typical spreadsheet from Visicalc with an exponential function and split windows
Typical spreadsheet from Visicalc with a sine function and split windows 1
Typical spreadsheet from Visicalc with a sine function and split windows 2 ; please take into account that negative values from column B are not shown in column C
References#
- DIF_Technical_Specification.pdf
; Data Interchange Format (DIF) specifications to exchange data from Visicalc with other programs. Highly recommended! Thank you Bill. :-)
Printouts#
