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)
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.- VisiCalc_Data_with_DOS_2.5_SD_Color.atr
; typical spreadsheet from Visicalc on a DOS 2.5 Color diskette. For loading please type in '/SL', the filename and press RETURN.
Pictures#
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References#
- DIF_Technical_Specification.pdf
; Data Interchange Format (DIF) specifications to exchange data from Visicalc with other programs. Highly recommended! Thank you Bill. :-)
Printouts#
- Spreadsheet_Printout.txt
; typical printout of a normal Visicalc spreadsheet
- VISICALC-Printout_with_Formulas.txt
; printout of a normal Visicalc spreadsheet with formulas