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The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 17:55 Steve Ballmer Visicalc was around.
- ▶ 36:24 Steve Ballmer And there was a Visicalc spreadsheet.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:13:54 David Rosenthal In 1979, kind of at the tail end of the eight-bit era, two programs come out for the Apple II, VisiCalc and WordStar.
- ▶ 2:14:03 David Rosenthal VisiCalc is the first software spreadsheet application, and WordStar is a word processor.
- ▶ 2:14:15 David Rosenthal But they're the first of their kind, particularly VisiCalc and the spreadsheet.
- ▶ 2:14:23 David Rosenthal There's a joke at one point in the industry that the Apple II was a quote-unquote VisiCalc accessory for small businesses.
- ▶ 2:19:19 David Rosenthal Application software to compete with VisiCalc and WordStar to compete with spreadsheets and to compete in word processing.
- ▶ 2:19:50 David Rosenthal So the vector that they think they're gonna compete at least in spreadsheets with VisiCalc is that they're gonna be on every platform out there.
- ▶ 2:20:00 David Rosenthal VisiCalc, I believe, was more or less basically only on the Apple II.
- ▶ 2:27:52 unnamed speaker That's what VisiCalc was, that's what even one, two, three was.