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To: ProDeath who wrote (72176)	8/17/2002 11:36:21 AM
From: Rusty Johnson	Respond to of 74651

Microsoft Excel Credit should be given to "the co-creators of VisiCalc" Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston. Note: Not from Redmond. This web site, www.bricklin.com, includes lots of information about VisiCalc, the first computer spreadsheet program as we know them today. History The idea for the electronic spreadsheet came to me while I was a student at the Harvard Business School, working on my MBA degree, in the spring of 1978. Sitting in Aldrich Hall, room 108, I would daydream. "Imagine if my calculator had a ball in its back, like a mouse..." (I had seen a mouse previously, I think in a demonstration at a conference by Doug Engelbart, and maybe the Alto). And "..imagine if I had a heads-up display, like in a fighter plane, where I could see the virtual image hanging in the air in front of me. I could just move my mouse/keyboard calculator around, punch in a few numbers, circle them to get a sum, do some calculations, and answer '10% will be fine!'" (10% was always the answer in those days when we couldn't do very complicated calculations...) bricklin.com Best of luck.