Dan Bricklin

I was just 9 when VisiCalc debuted, but already engrossed in computing at the offices of my dads (one director of pharmacology, the other an accountant/entrepreneur). Both had impressive systems in their respective labs/offices, and both used VisiCalc. Our first home computer, a Tandy Model 4, was bundled with pfs:file, ScriptsIT word processor, and VisiCalc for around $4,000 ($99 for VisiCalc).

Dan Bricklin, inventor of the spreadsheet, is presenting tomorrow (Tuesday) at the New York Tech Meetup. If I weren’t ensconced on Lake Lucerne for two more weeks of slinging code in the North Woods, I wouldn’t miss it — http://bit.ly/Tziks