Talk:SuperCalc

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Release year probably wrong - should be 1981

The year of release is currently listed as 1980. However, I have a photo from May 1981 that I took when I saw a beta version demonstrated on an Osborne 1 (a computer first shipped in production many weeks later in 1981) at the National Computer Conference and it was not complete at the time I spoke with the developers there.

Since that's sort of anecdotal, as backup I refer to the first reference here on this page written by Wally Feigenson, the program's product manager: "SuperCalc was commissioned by Adam Osborn for his first computer..." That would also imply 1981.

See also: "The Birth of SuperCalc" section of the Wikipedia page for Sorcim (apparently written by Wally Feigenson): "The product was introduced in April 1981 at the West Coast Computer Faire in the Osborne booth." ("Introduced" is not the same as "released" -- released is usually later for software from those days.)

I don't see any reasons given for having 1980 as a "released" year, but very strong reasons for 1981.

So, it should be 1981. That is still really early in spreadsheet history and gives SuperCalc the honored place it deserves. I still remember it as the first program similar to VisiCalc after VisiCalc's release, and one that continued to be a major player for years bringing an electronic spreadsheet to many people for the first time. (As co-creator of VisiCalc, released in 1979, I was watching the personal computer software market in those days.)

DanBricklin (talk) 23:04, 3 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

patent and rights with visicalc?

Wasn't there ever any problem with taking the basic idea from VisiCalc? פשוט pashute ♫ (talk) 01:21, 19 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]