The creation and the demise of VisiCalc

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 20-31

  Grad, Burton ^a,b  

^a Burton Grad Associates Inc   (United States)

^b Software Industry Special Interest Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Bob Frankston; Business; Companies; Computers; Dan Bricklin; Dan Fylstra; History; Microcomputers; Personal computer software; Spreadsheets; Text processing; VisiCalc

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE PACKAGE VISICALC; SOFTWARE PRODUCT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MICROCOMPUTERS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TEXT PROCESSING;

SPREADSHEETS;

EID: 35349026678     PISSN: 10586180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAHC.2007.4338439     Document Type: Article

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