First Internet message and ...

[Mike Stein]

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From: "Fred Cisin via cctalk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: First Internet message and ...


> On Tue, 26 Nov 2019, TeoZ via cctalk wrote:
>> The only reason Apple sold so many Apple II's was because some software 
>> designer came out with Visicalc.
> 
> Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston  ("Software Arts")
> They sold it through "Personal Software", who became "VisiCorp"
> http://www.bricklin.com/history/sai.htm
> 
> Frankly, I think that word processing was more responsible than 
> spreadsheet for microcomputer sales.
> But, Apple had a headstart by having both.
> 
> A far from complete and only partially chronological list:
> Electric Pencil  (Michael Shrayer)
> Electric Pencil for CP/M  (with a program to transfer files from Electric 
> Pencil disks to and from CP/M disks)
> Wordstar for CP/M (MicroPro (later WordStar, Inc))
> Easy Writer (Apple II, by John Draper)
> Scripsit (TRS80)
> Electric Pencil for TRS80
> Easy Writer for IBm PC
> Wordstar for PC
> Electric Pencil for PC (Harv Pennington)
> Microsoft Word  (PC and Apple)
> WordPervert
> PC-Write (Bob Wallace)
> 
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WordPro, Paper Clip (written by local boys) and PaperMate for the Commodore PET (and later for the C64)