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![Apple ][ VisiCalc](visicalc/visicalcscreen.gif)
On April 8, Dan Bricklin, Bob Frankston, and Mitch Kapor gathered with Charles Simonyi to
speak about the Origins and Impact of VisiCalc.
This got me thinking about those early days and my own first encounters with the program.
I was lucky to be able to use VisiCalc for several months before it was introduced to the market.
There were even a few bytes of my code in the original Apple ][ version.
More about VisiCalc and Personal Software
Microchess for the Kim-1 was the first game program sold for home computers. After six months of
development, the first copy was
shipped on December 18, 1976.
In preparation for the Vintage Computer Festival, I powered up the same Kim-1
used to write the original program and loaded Microchess into memory.
The program and data required all of the Kim-1's memory ... 1K. How things have changed in the past quarter century.
