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Donna Whitesell's avatar

Well, I am an older reader, and Not very computer literate. I enjoyed the background on the spread sheet my daughters set up for me after my husband passed. I always learn something from your articles. I am considering subscribing. Thank-you.

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John Blair's avatar

The Apple II came out in June of 1977 and the TRS-80 (from Radio Shack) came out in November of 1977. It cost $599, about half of the starting price of an Apple II. I had a TRS-80 and the principle program I ran was VisiCalc. I loved that setup and it radically changed the way the small engineering company I worked at did our proposal cost calculations. We had a room-sized HP "mini-computer" but my little TRS-80 could do things it could never do. I learned a lot about cost forecasting since I had to do all of the proposal costing from then on. We used it happily for a number of years.

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