Personal computers have only ever been as useful as the applications that run on them, and the three-way battle between the Apple II, Tandy's TRS-80, and the Commodore PET was no exception. When each machine was launched, it boasted a handful of primitive software applications such as BASIC compilers, and has little use to people not already well-versed in hacker skills.
Dan Bricklin, who invented the electronic spreadsheet as a Harvard MBA student, originally planned to implement the program on mid-70s model minicomputers. However, when he decided to develop it instead for personal desktop machines, he chose the Apple II - and Visicalc's massive success propelled the platform to market dominance almost overnight. Tandy, for its part, was reduced to becoming just another PC-compatible manufacturer in a sea of undifferentiated hardware firms.
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