In 1978, a Harvard Business School student named Dan Bricklin was sitting in a classroom, watching his accounting lecturer filling in rows and columns on the blackboard. Every time the lecturer ...

In 1979, two M.I.T. computer-science alumni and a Harvard Business School graduate launched a new piece of computer software for the Apple II machine, an early home computer. Called VisiCalc, short ...

Description Visicalc is software for the Apple II and II Plus was written by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston for Software Arts, Inc and published by Personal Software, Inc. of Sunnyvale, California, in ...

A lot of people are eager to see Dan Bricklin's latest product. It's a new piece of software, which means there are features to program and bugs to work out. This isn't an easy task, especially when ...

IBM PC's 40th anniversary is this month so we glance on its beginnings, its growth and its significance(Photo by SSPL/Getty Images) One of the most important ...

Anyone who uses Excel owes a debt of gratitude to Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston, the inventors of VisiCalc, the first personal computer spreadsheet. Both men attended the Massachusetts Institute of ...

When the IBM PC first hit the market in 1981, it didn't have a lot of software. In PC Magazine's second issue, we looked at IBM's "Personal Computer Software Publishing Department"—an arm of 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, ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

In 1978, a Harvard Business School student named Dan Bricklin was sitting in a classroom, watching his accounting lecturer filling in rows and columns on the blackboard. Every time the lecturer ...

When the IBM PC first hit the market in 1981, it didn't have a lot of software. In PC Magazine's second issue, we looked at IBM's "Personal Computer Software Publishing Department"—an arm of the ...