October 11, 1979: VisiCalc Introduced

by Chris Seibold Oct 11, 2007

The seminal program in the history of the Mac was PageMaker, the seminal program in the history of Apple was Visicalc.

Visicalc, as you can guess by the illustrative name, was a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets are a dime a dozen but Visicalc was a little different in that it was the first spreadsheet. Overnight, once arduous tasks became a matter of a simple recalculation. Businesses had an obvious money saving reason to purchase a computer, and the only computer that ran Visicalc was the Apple II.

The program that made the Apple II, the program that that has become an essential computing tool (in various forms) was introduced this month in 1979.

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  • “The program that made the Mac”? The Macintosh and the Apple II are very different, distinct computer platforms. Perhaps you meant, “The program that made the Apple II, etc”.

    United States Steven Weyhrich had this to say on Oct 11, 2006 Posts: 5

  • Yes, of course. Thanks for pointing that out.

    United States Chris Seibold had this to say on Oct 11, 2006 Posts: 292

  • Why does clicking on the left-side “Recent Articles” links to these articles result in seeing no article at all?

    United States MarkSF had this to say on Oct 11, 2007 Posts: 14
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