Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting , Reminder, tomorrow, Wednesday, June 21, 2023 - Implementing VisiCalc

When: June 21, 2023 7:00PM EDT (6:30PM for Q&A)

Topic: Implementing VisiCalc

Speaker:  Bob Frankston

Location: Online: https://meet.jit.si/blu.org

Live stream: https://youtube.com/live/hcjwRFT_uto?feature=share

Summary:

A retrospective look at the early days of personal computing

Abstract:


Bob discusses his experience in writing VisiCalc back in 1978, and the
many design decisions made along the way. He gave a similar talk for the
Computer History Museum's "The Origins and Impact of VisiCalc" panel on
April 8th 2003.

Bio

Bob Frankston is probably best known as co-creator of the original
spreadsheet application, VisiCalc. His detailed bio is at
http://rmf.vc/bob_frankston_bio [rmf.vc]

Attachments

Implementing VisiCalc (Bob's personal website)
https://rmf.vc/implementingvisicalc

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site:
http://www.blu.org

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Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux@gmail.com <mailto:gaf.linux@gmail.com>>
Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org
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