VisiCalc: The killer app for the Apple II - Tech Tales Podcast
6VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet computer application, released in 1979 and created by two developers in an attic. The tool quickly became the must-have program for the Apple II computer, but it didn't take long for VisiCalc's publisher and developers to fight over its success.
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Sources:
• https://books.google.com/books?id=9gIPuja3CoEC&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false
• https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2017/06/102738286-05-01-acc.pdf
• http://www.bricklin.com/history/sai.htm
• https://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/18/business/visicalc-lawsuit-is-settled.html
• https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/26/business/how-a-software-winner-went-sour.html
• https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/09/business/copyright-suit-fights-lotus-1-2-3.html
• https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-03-07-fi-245-story.html
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