Musings from The Software Underground

Low End Mac has posted an interview with the creator of VisiCalc, Dan Bricklin. For those not up on their software industry history, he was the guy who:

...codeveloped VisiCalc with Bob Frankston in the late 1970s while he was a student at the Harvard Business School. VisiCalc is widely credited for fueling the rapid growth of business computing.

Bricklin could be considered "old school" now but he was once considered "new school." According to Wikipedia:

VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet program available for personal computers. It is generally considered to be the application that turned the microcomputer from a hobby for computer enthusiasts into a serious business tool

Think about that change for a second. This was the first app to start the business software industry really. Now THAT'S "new school."

Read the full interview: Interview with Dan Bricklin, Inventor of the Electronic Spreadsheet
Dan Brickin's own VisiCalc site: VisiCalc: Information from its creators, Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston