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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How many of you have used\Nan electronic spreadsheet,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like Microsoft Excel?\NVery good.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now how many of you have run a business\Nwith a spreadsheet by hand,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like my dad did for his small\Nprinting business in Philadelphia?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot less. Well, that's the way\Nit was done for hundreds of years.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In early 1978, I started working\Non an idea that eventually became VisiCalc.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the next year it shipped\Nrunning on something new
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called an Apple II Personal Computer.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You could tell that things\Nhad really changed when six years later,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial\Nthat assumed you knew what VisiCalc was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and maybe even were using it.\NSteve Jobs back in 1990 said that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spreadsheets propelled\Nthe industry forward.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,VisiCalc propelled the success of Apple\Nmore than any other single event.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On a more personal note, Steve said\Nthat if VisiCalc had been written
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for some other computer,\Nyou'd be interviewing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somebody else right now.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, VisiCalc was instrumental in getting\Npersonal computers on business desks.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How did it come about? What was it?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What did I go through\Nto make it be what it was?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I first learned to program\Nback in 1966, when I was 15 --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just a couple months after\Nthis photo was taken.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Few high schoolers had access\Nto computers in those days
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but through luck\Nand an awful lot of perseverance,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was able to get\Ncomputer time around the city.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After sleeping in the mud at Woodstock,\NI went off the MIT to go to college,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where to make money,\NI worked on the Multics Project.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now Multics was a trailblazing\Ninteractive time-sharing system.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you heard of the\NLenix ad Unix operating systems?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They came from Multics.\NI worked on the Multics versions
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what are known as\Ninterpreted computer languages,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are used by people\Nin non-computer fields
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to do their calculations while seated\Nat a computer terminal.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After I graduated from MIT,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went to work for\NDigital Equipment Corporation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At DEC, I worked on software for\Nthe new area of computerized typesetting.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I helped newspapers replace\Ntheir reporters' typewriters
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with computer terminals.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd write software\Nand then I'd go out in the field
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to places like the Kansas City Star where\NI would train users and get feedback.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now this was real world experience\Nthat was quite different
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from what I saw in the lab at MIT.