{"id":42,"date":"2010-04-09T13:54:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T17:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/spreadsheet-people\/"},"modified":"2018-07-03T19:25:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T23:25:11","slug":"spreadsheet-people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/spreadsheet-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreadsheet People"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"d942c2121bfbd137a3b44056a000f09c\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Responsive Top -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9531091850463532\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"6574318169\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"top\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#Bricklin\">Dan Bricklin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Frankston\">Bob Frankston<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Kapor\">Mitch Kapor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#simonyi\">Charles Simonyi<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Klunder\">Doug Klunder<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Fylstra\">Dan Fylstra<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Ozzie\">Ray Ozzie<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Wulf\">Andrew Wulf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Dakin\">Ken Dakin<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a name=\"Bricklin\"><\/a>Dan Bricklin<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trs-80.org\/visicalc\/\">http:\/\/www.trs-80.org\/visicalc\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDan Bricklin came up with the idea for an \u201celectronic spreadsheet\u201d while still a graduate student at Harvard Business School. He and Bob Frankston founded Software Arts, Inc. in 1979 to explore the idea and VisiCalc was the result. First demonstrated at the National Computer Conference in June 1979, the Apple II version of VisiCalc was shipped on October 17, 1979.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"#top\">Top<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><a name=\"Frankston\"><\/a>Bob Frankston<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trs-80.org\/visicalc\/\">http:\/\/www.trs-80.org\/visicalc\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDan Bricklin came up with the idea for an \u201celectronic spreadsheet\u201d while still a graduate student at Harvard Business School. He and Bob Frankston founded Software Arts, Inc. in 1979 to explore the idea and VisiCalc was the result. First demonstrated at the National Computer Conference in June 1979, the Apple II version of VisiCalc was shipped on October 17, 1979.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"#top\">Top<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><a name=\"Kapor\"><\/a>Mitch Kapor<\/h2>\n<p>History of Lotus 1-2-3<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMitch Kapor founded Lotus with Jonathan Sachs in 1982.\u00a0 Kapor had come from VisiCalc, a competitor, and Sachs had come from a company that created spreadsheet software for the Data General minicomputer. \u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"#top\">Top<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><a name=\"simonyi\"><\/a>Charles Simonyi<\/h2>\n<p>Wikipedia Article: <a title=\"Charles Simonyi\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Simonyi\">Charles Simonyi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 1981, at Metcalfe&#8217;s suggestion, he applied directly to Bill Gates for a job at Microsoft. At the firm, Simonyi oversaw the development of what became its most profitable products, Word and Excel, as well as Excel&#8217;s predecessor Multiplan. &#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"#top\">Top<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><a name=\"Klunder\"><\/a>Doug Klunder<\/h2>\n<p>Key Events in Microsoft History (Word document)<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Multiplan released 1984<\/p>\n<p>Richard Brodie\u2019s Website: Microsoft: The Early Days<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Charles\u2019s mission was to compete against the surprisingly successful <em>VisiCalc<\/em>, the first spreadsheet program. He was to develop Microsoft\u2019s spreadsheet, a project code-named \u201cEP\u201d (for \u201cElectronic Paper\u201d) and later marketed as Microsoft Multiplan. That task he entrusted to <strong>Doug Klunder<\/strong>, programmer <em>extraordinaire<\/em>, who would go on to lead the development of the unmatched <em>Excel<\/em> after Multiplan\u2019s lukewarm market reception in the face of<em> Lotus 1-2-3<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#top\">Top<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><a name=\"Fylstra\"><\/a>Dan Fylstra<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"Godfathers of the Spreadsheet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/116166-3\/three_minutes_godfathers_of_the_spreadsheet.html\">Godfathers of the Spreadsheet<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#top\">Top<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><a name=\"Ozzie\"><\/a>Ray Ozzie<\/h2>\n<p>One of the technology industry&#8217;s true visionaries. He worked on the first spreadsheet, VisiCalc, and developed the Lotus Symphony office suite. And that was only the prelude: He launched Iris Associates, which developed the software that would become Lotus Notes, and later Groove Networks, which developed the collaboration software Groove Virtual Office (now called Microsoft Office Groove).<br \/>\n<a href=\"#top\">Top<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><a name=\"Wulf\"><\/a>Andrew Wulf<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecodist.com\/article\/my_macintosh_experiences_of_25_years_ago\">http:\/\/thecodist.com\/article\/my_macintosh_experiences_of_25_years_ago<\/a><br \/>\nTrapeze spreadsheet 1987<br \/>\n&#8220;In May 1987 I was asked to appear on a nationally syndicated computer show (Computer Chronicles) and got to demo Trapeze alongside Excel with its product manager from Microsoft. I was able to scoop them a bit by getting an unreleased (at the time) color monitor and Mac from Apple, and coding up Trapeze to support color (8!). You can watch the show (and see me in my finest white pimp suit).&#8221;<br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Business1987_3\" href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Business1987_3\">http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Business1987_3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wondered what happened to Trapeze, and found a blog post by Andrew Wulf, who reports that <a title=\"Apple's Numbers program\" href=\"http:\/\/thecodist.com\/article\/apples-numbers-spreadsheet--like-my-trapeze-spreadsheet-but-20-years-later\">Apple\u2019s Numbers program<\/a> is similar to the old Trapeze program. Since I haven\u2019t used either program, I\u2019ll take his word for it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#top\">Top<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><a name=\"Dakin\"><\/a>Ken Dakin<\/h2>\n<p>programmer &#8212; Mainframe spreadsheet<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.editgrid.com\/user\/ken\/HISTORY_OF_SPREADSHEETS\">http:\/\/www.editgrid.com\/user\/ken\/HISTORY_OF_SPREADSHEETS<\/a><br \/>\nWorks Record System (3-D spreadsheet used at ICI) 1974-2001<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Bricklin Bob Frankston Mitch Kapor Charles Simonyi Doug Klunder Dan Fylstra Ray Ozzie Andrew Wulf Ken Dakin Dan Bricklin http:\/\/www.trs-80.org\/visicalc\/ \u201cDan Bricklin came up with the idea for an \u201celectronic spreadsheet\u201d while still&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-42","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}