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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

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    5:25a
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    "In those days [1978-1979], if you showed [the VisiCalc demo] to a programmer, he'd say, 'Well, that's neat. Of course computers can do that - so what?' But if you showed it to a person who had to do financial work with real spreadsheets, he'd start shaking and say, 'I spent all week doing that.' Then he'd shove his charge cards in your face." -- Dan Bricklin, one of the creators of VisiCalc, quoted in a 1989 Byte interview

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