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There'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 beh
by bobbiechen 7y ago
There'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/