Individual user productivity is to Unified Communications as VisiCalc was to personal computing. VisiCalc, of course, was one the first software programs that enabled individuals to harness a PC to ...

Before Microsoft's Excel came about, a Harvard MBA student and his former MIT classmate built the first spreadsheet software for the Apple II. It was 1979 and Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston wanted to ...

Dan Bricklin first came up with the idea of an electronic spreadsheet while he was at Harvard Business School in 1978. He later joined forces with Bob Frankston and Dan Fylstra to publish the ...

This brown three-ring binder has the user manual for VisiCalc made for the TRS-80 Model I. The manual was sold by Radio Shack of Fort Worth, Texas, following Personal Software, Inc., of Sunnyvale, ...

In 1979, Dan Bricklin wrote the most innovative piece of software in history. Before VisiCalc, there was nothing that remotely resembled an “electronic spreadsheet.” After it, the world of business ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This software and documentation was ...

In the summer of 1978, a Harvard student named Dan Bricklin was cycling along a path in Martha's Vineyard, when he had a big idea. As an MBA student, he was being taught to do financial planning using ...