#visicalc — Public Fediverse posts
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🖥️ Ah, yes, the riveting tale of how spreadsheets—those glorified tables that haunt our work lives—came to be. #VisiCalc, the "GameBoy game" of its time, apparently revolutionized #computing with its primitive charm and jaw-dropping 16K RAM requirement. 🙄 One can only imagine the thrill of rebuilding a 1979 relic while the rest of us are busy enjoying the luxury of actual modern technology. 😂
https://zserge.com/posts/visicalc/ #spreadsheets #techhistory #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated -
🪨 Lotus 1-2-3 on the PC w/DOS 🛠️
Did you know that #Lotus123 is still referenced in Microsoft #Excel documentation to this day, but not #visicalc I finally spent some time getting to know VisiCalc's literal killer. When I struggled to get a chart made, I turned to the only one who could help me: an AI. From 1986!
#retrocomputing #spreadsheet -
Wow, the #GreaseWeazle really is an incredible piece of equipment.
I've successfully made a raw flux dump of an original #VisiCalc for #Atari800 5¼-inch floppy disk and written the image to a fresh disk. My Atari 800 boots successfully into VisiCalc from the fresh disk in my #Atari1050 floppy disk drive.
I am seriously impressed. This is proper #SoftwareArchaeology.
No skill exhibited on my part; the Greaseweazle guide includes an example of how to specify the correct parameters for the
gwcommand line program to successfully image an Atari disk. Raw flux allows us to image the disk, copy protection and all.I'm inclined to put the image up on Archive.org, along with quality scans of the box and manuals.
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#ActuLibre Vieux Geek, épisode 315 : Visicalc, la première « killer app »… à lire sur https://blog.fredericbezies-ep.fr/2021/10/04/vieux-geek-episode-315-visicalc-la-premiere-killer-app/ #Mémoiredevieuxgeek #mémoiredevieuxgeek #Informatique #Trucsdegeek #geekeries #Killerapp #vieuxgeek #Visicalc #Culture #AppleII #Cinéma #1979
