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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (301)3/6/1998 5:08:00 AM
From: Sleeperz  Read Replies (1) of 633
 
Actually according to a PBS show, the original spreadsheet was developed by 2 University professors.
Basic was developed by Bill Gates and Crew who bought the original
from some other company.
The Apple computer was developed in a garage by Jobs and Wozniak.

I don't think anything PC or Software was really cheap in 1975-1985. PCs and Software today are alot cheaper than it was back then. Games today cost less today than in the early 80s. There was no such a thing as a sub $1000 PC in the early 80s.
You can't really compare Borland's $19 CL compiler with todays IDE.

cl

>>>Nearly all of the brilliant new categories of software (like the spreadsheet) that came out of 1975-1985 were developed on a shoestring with cheap tools by independents working in their garages and bedrooms and student dorms back then.<<<
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