Bob Frankston

Bob Frankston

Robert M. (Bob) Frankston (born June 14, 1949) is an American software engineer and businessman who co-created, with Dan Bricklin, the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. Frankston is also the co-founder of Software Arts.

Following his work with Dan Bricklin, Frankston later worked at Lotus Development Corporation and Microsoft.


Historical Timeline for Bob Frankston :

Date Event
11 May 1979 VisiCalc publicly demonstrated for the first time
17 Oct 1979 Personal Software releases VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet

 

 

 

 
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