Ben was still an electronics analyst at Morgan Stanley and at whose conference a couple of months before VisiCalc was shown privately by Dan Fylstra our publisher. I graduated Harvard Business School a couple of days after Bob's talk. It looked like Mr. Clines didn't fully understand what he was writing about, but we sure appreciated the quote. Interest in what it did, i.e., being an electronic spreadsheet, was low. VisiCalc didn't appear in a major newspaper or business magazine for many months after that first mention.
Technology often takes a while to be appreciated and catch on.
Many business people who saw our demo in the booth, though, were enthusiastic. All Rights Reserved.