First Advertisements for VisiCalc

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=50 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="027000d2esnpes.gif"> <div> <B>First Advertisements for VisiCalc</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=394 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> The first advertisement for VisiCalc appeared in the May 1979 issue of Byte Magazine. Here is the cover:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="03096c60.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="198" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Byte May 1979</div> <bR> <div> Dan Fylstra, head of our publisher Personal Software and one of the founding editors of Byte Magazine years before, decided to take out a brash teaser ad in the back section. VisiCalc was unannounced at the time, and not scheduled to ship for a while. I thought he was being a little strong, but he really was right on target for many people (accountants, business planners, etc.):</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="032c8bb0.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="187" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> First VisiCalc ad</div> <bR> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=36 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="027000d2esnpes.gif"> <div> <A HREF="saiearly.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Early Days"><U>< Previous Page</U></A>  <A HREF="saiwccf.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="West Coast Computer Faire"><U>Next Page ></U></A>  For more History see the book <A HREF="http://www.bricklin.com/bontech" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.bricklin.com/bontech"><U><I>Bricklin on Technology</I></U></A>.</div> <div> © Copyright 1999-2009 by Daniel Bricklin. All Rights Reserved.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>