Individual user productivity is to Unified Communications as VisiCalc was to personal computing. VisiCalc, of course, was one the first software programs that enabled individuals to harness a PC to ...

Dan Bricklin first came up with the idea of an electronic spreadsheet while he was at Harvard Business School in 1978. He later joined forces with Bob Frankston and Dan Fylstra to publish the ...

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 ...

In the summer of 1978, a Harvard student named Dan Bricklin was cycling along a path in Martha's Vineyard, when he had a big idea. As an MBA student, he was being taught to do financial planning using ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This software and documentation was ...

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 ...