Comments on: VisiCalc: The first killer app’s unveiling http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2012/03/23/visicalc-the-first-killer-apps-unveiling/ Let's just see what happens Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:24:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Once Again Bill http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2012/03/23/visicalc-the-first-killer-apps-unveiling/comment-page-1/#comment-73314 Once Again Bill Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:12:12 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/?p=11728#comment-73314 …so just about the time when early adopters were getting familiar with AppleSoft BASIC and learning how to translate real-life situations into code, along comes VisiCalc and the entire landscape changed from ‘Learning How To Program’ to ‘Learning how To Use Programming Products’.
IMHO, a tremendous dis-service was done, and the fork in the road was taken.

]]> By: Mirek Sopek http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2012/03/23/visicalc-the-first-killer-apps-unveiling/comment-page-1/#comment-73234 Mirek Sopek Sun, 25 Mar 2012 07:03:54 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/?p=11728#comment-73234 That screen warmed me up on that cold morning with first DST day and one hour already lost …

I can’t forget another screen on my first computer – Apple II:
UCSD p-code operating system menu.

Absolutely ingenious, competitor of BASIC too, precursor of the philosophies of Java and Microsoft .NET on these old beautiful machines..

Melt into tears by the memories of that beginnings….

]]> By: VisiCalc: The first killer app’s unveiling « Things I grab, motley collection http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2012/03/23/visicalc-the-first-killer-apps-unveiling/comment-page-1/#comment-73227 VisiCalc: The first killer app’s unveiling « Things I grab, motley collection Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:35:11 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/?p=11728#comment-73227 [...] Via http://www.hyperorg.com Share this:TwitterFacebookTumblrPinterestLinkedInDiggEmailLike this:LikeBe the first to like this post. [...]

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