The authoritative history on Visicalc can be found on Dan Bricklin's site: http://www.bricklin.com/visicalc.htm
The sad story of the relationship between Personal Software (mostly Bricklin and Frankston) and VisiCorp is here: http://www.bricklin.com/history/saiend.htm On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Jerry Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > > I had VisiCalc on my TRS-80 Model I. Who ported it to that? > > Personal Software also had the original distrivution rights for > Infocom, and only sold Zork I for the TRS-80. They then decided to > put all their eggs in the spreadsheet basket and gave up on the > games. So the TRS-80 may have been one of the machines they > originally did a version of VisiCalc for (and I'll believe the > article when it says there was a DOS version), but they rose and fell > on the Apple II. > > -Jerry > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4vq+b5uH2Bf8D1cSmffrkfuE3a6s3rUWM=gp9rmrfj...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
