Wired Article! + Visicalc on the $12 computer
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Remember Visicalc?
Priya Ganapati of Wired Magazine just posted an awesome article on Playpower. Check it out! She really nailed the finer points of our mission, but also presented the project as a *lot* of fun.
ETech has been a fantastic experience so far. There is such a variety of interesting people. For example, here’s a picture of Jeremy and I talking to Bob Frankston, who developed Visicalc. If you weren’t around in 1979, that’s the world’s first spreadsheet program, developed on the 6502 based Apple II. It turned the home computer into a useful business tool.
He said he’ll try to find the source code for us. That’s so awesome.
