☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻<p>“VisiCalc sold more than seven hundred thousand copies in its first six years, and almost single-handedly demonstrated the utility of the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AppleII" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AppleII</span></a>, which retailed for more than a thousand dollars at the time (the equivalent of more than five thousand dollars in 2023). Prior to the early seventies, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>computers</span></a> were centralized machines—occupying entire rooms—that <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/academics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>academics</span></a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/hobbyists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hobbyists</span></a> shared or rented time on, using them communally. They were more boiler-room infrastructure than <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LifeStyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LifeStyle</span></a> accessory, attended to by experts away from the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/PublicEye" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PublicEye</span></a>.”</p><p>Read to the end. The ease of use of complicated tools, results in a lot problems in the future. </p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/PersonalComputers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PersonalComputers</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/VisiCalc" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VisiCalc</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Commodore</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/tandy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tandy</span></a> <<a href="https://newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-birth-of-the-personal-computer" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newyorker.com/culture/infinite</span><span class="invisible">-scroll/the-birth-of-the-personal-computer</span></a>></p>