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) ; Thank 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#

Sadly, AtariWiki has no rights to publish VisiCalc legally, even after 37 years. We just can hope, that some special day a good soul from IBM have a great heart and give us the rights to publish it here for non commercial purposes.

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(info) ; Data Interchange Format (DIF) specifications to exchange data from Visicalc with other programs. Highly recommended! Thank you Bill. :-)

Printouts#

This particular version was published on 03-Sep-2017 00:38 by Roland B. Wassenberg.  Top