"John Rumm" wrote in message
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On 01/05/2015 20:13, Simon Brown wrote:


"Dennis@home" wrote in message
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On 01/05/2015 08:28, Simon Brown wrote:


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Apple was lucky, they had an application that people wanted enough to
pay for. Others at the time lacked that one bit of software.

It wasnt one bit of software that saw Apple succeed.

Name another one that was worth buying at that time.

Plenty just used what it came with and never used VisiCalc at all.

The key thing about Visicalc was that it sold the microcomputer concept to
business. Enthusiasts would have bought the machine anyway - but business
needed a reason.

Yes, but VisiCalc wasnt the only reason, particularly with small business.