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By Greg on Thursday, December 6 2007, 13:45 - fun - Permalink

And other oldies ;). I am reading Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days and one of the stories is about Dan Bricklin and the early days of Software Arts, which he co-founded with Bob Frankston. On his website, he details the history of Software Arts and VisiCalc. VisiCalc was _the_ first spreadsheet software (1-2-3 followed just after). Bob tells how Implementing VisiCalc.

I have not yet finished the book, but I already learned a lot from the first stories. I think there is a lot to learn in this book from the story of such legendary startups (see the TOC for the list).

Pour les francophones, j'ai découvert AnteMemoire TV, une émission qui retrace l'histoire de l'informatique à travers des personnes, logiciels ou matériels connus et qui ont marqué leur temps. Cela fait partie d'un projet plus globale de musée de l'informatique. L'émission AnteMemoire TV #6 parle de VisiCalc (c'est le sujet du billet quand même !!).

Dédicace spéciale à Stéphane !!! A quand une démo sur l'Apple II ? ;)

[update] Comme quoi on se refait pas, Dan a fondé Software Garden et développé WikiCalc que l'on peut voir à l'oeuvre dans cette demo (screencast en flash).

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