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You can download VisiCalc from Dan Bricklin's site at http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm and run
by paulfitz 7y ago
You can download VisiCalc from Dan Bricklin's site at http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm and run it using dosbox. Tip: a formula is something like "+A1" instead of "=A1".
- bobbiechen 7y agoThere's also this online emulator from PCjs: https://www.pcjs.org/apps/pcx86/1981/visicalc/ https://www.pcjs.org/apps/pcx86/1981/visicalc/ You can see some behavior differences compared to modern spreadsheets, notably: there's no operator precedence in VisiCalc. 1 + 2 * 3 = 9 (instead of 7), because this imitated the behavior of simple calculators. Bricklin realized VisiCalc was competing against people with paper and calculators, and anything that made it harder or slower than that would hurt adoption.
- paulfitz 7y agoNeat! Looks like that site also has Lotus 1-2-3 https://www.pcjs.org/disks/pcx86/apps/lotus/123/1as/ https://www.pcjs.org/disks/pcx86/apps/lotus/123/1as/