History Introduction

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=50 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="027000d2esnpes.gif"> <div> <B>History Introduction</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=394 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <A HREF="sai.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Software Arts and VisiCalc"><U><B>Software Arts and VisiCalc</B></U></A><B> | </B><A HREF="sgi.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Software Garden"><U><B>Software Garden</B></U></A><B> | </B><A HREF="slatecorp.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Slate Corporation"><U><B>Slate Corporation</B></U></A><B> | </B><A HREF="trellixcorp.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Trellix Corporation"><U><B>Trellix Corporation</B></U></A><B> |</B><B> </B><A HREF="others.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Other Pictures and Stuff"><U><B>Other Pictures and Stuff</B></U></A><B> | </B><A HREF="othersites.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Other History Sites"><U><B>Other History Sites</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>A way to make my historical collection more widely available</B></div> <bR> <div> This History section contains images and text. It has material about the <B>products and companies I've worked with</B>, as well as material related to the computer field. I have saved a lot of material, and took some pictures along the way. Audiences always seem to like my presentations that include this historical material, so I'm reproducing some of that here to reach those I cannot see in person.</div> <bR> <div> I like learning from history, and hope the developers of other products who have created similar web sites (or are inspired to do it now!) will contact me and let me add links here to their sites. Those that have are listed in <A HREF="othersites.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Other History Sites"><U>Other History Sites</U></A>.</div> <bR> <div> <B>The Map on the left border is for navigation</B></div> <bR> <div> This section of my web site is created as a Trellix document with a <B>map</B> to help you navigate around. You can <B>click on the page icons</B> in the map on the left to go directly to a particular page (the icons are the little white rectangles: <IMG SRC="0381d0c0.gif" border=0 width="29" height="12" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">). The horizontal lines represent sequences of related pages. Even though this section uses frames, <B>all pages are bookmarkable</B> (that is, you can link to them directly with a unique URL). I can't, however, guarantee that the page names will stay the same as I add more information and reorganize this section over time.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Housekeeping</B></div> <bR> <div> The photographs, text, and other content are not to be reproduced without permission.</div> <bR> <div> © Copyright 1999-2009 by Daniel Bricklin. All Rights Reserved.</div> <bR> <div> This section is preliminary and will be updated and filled in as Bob and I have the time to work on it. We have lots of great material for history fans. If there is something in particular that you want covered first, let me know!</div> <bR> <div> You can find  more information and photos in my book, <A HREF="http://www.bricklin.com/bontech" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.bricklin.com/bontech"><U><I>Bricklin on Technology</I></U></A>.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Software Arts and VisiCalc</B></div> <div> <A HREF="saiidea.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Idea"><U>The Idea</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="saiearly.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Early Days"><U>Early Days</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="firstad.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="First Advertisements for VisiCalc"><U>First Advertisements for VisiCalc</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="saiwccf.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="West Coast Computer Faire"><U>West Coast Computer Faire</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="saincc.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="National Computer Conference"><U>National Computer Conference</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="rosenletter.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ben Rosens Reaction"><U>Ben Rosen's Reaction</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="saiproduct1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The First Product"><U>The First Product</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="saimiddle.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Middle days"><U>Middle days</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="sailater.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Later days"><U>Later days</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="saiend.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Software Arts / Personal Software (V"><U>The Software Arts / Personal Software (VisiCorp) Relationship</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="refcard1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Refcard 1"><U>Refcard 1</U></A>   |   <A HREF="refcard2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Refcard 2"><U>Refcard 2</U></A>   |   <A HREF="refcard3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Refcard 3"><U>Refcard 3</U></A>   |   <A HREF="refcard4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Refcard 4"><U>Refcard 4</U></A>   |   <A HREF="refcard5.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Refcard 5"><U>Refcard 5</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="vcexecutable.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="VisiCalc Executable for the IBM PC"><U>VisiCalc Executable for the IBM PC</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="vcpostingreactions.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reactions to posting VisiCalc"><U>Reactions to posting VisiCalc</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="dmrletter.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Letter from Dennis Ritchie"><U>Letter from Dennis Ritchie</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Software Garden</B></div> <div> <A HREF="sgidemo.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dan Bricklins Demo Program"><U>Dan Bricklin's Demo Program</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Slate</B></div> <div> <A HREF="slatecorp.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Slate Corporation"><U>Slate Corporation</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Trellix</B></div> <div> <A HREF="trellixcorp.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Trellix Corporation"><U>Trellix Corporation</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Some Historical Pictures</B></div> <div> <A HREF="historicalpictures.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="People Pictures"><U>People Pictures</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="productpictures.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Product Pictures"><U>Product Pictures</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Other History Sites</B></div> <div> <A HREF="othersites.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Other History Sites"><U>Other History Sites</U></A></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Back to the web site <A HREF="../default.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="../default.htm"><U>home page</U></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=36 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="027000d2esnpes.gif"> <div>                                              For more History see the book <A HREF="http://www.bricklin.com/bontech" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.bricklin.com/bontech"><U><I>Bricklin on Technology</I></U></A>.</div> <div> © Copyright 1999-2009 by Daniel Bricklin. 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