Archive for the ‘VisiCalc’ category

The cyclical high-tech companies

January 5, 2011

Throughout my career, I’ve seen behemoth companies that were on the top of the world and had the world beating a path to their door, only to be displaced by upstarts. Wordstar (anyone remember this) owned the word processing market but was replaced by Word Perfect, and then Microsoft Word. Same thing with spreadsheets: Visicalc [...]


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