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In the spring of 1978, Dan Bricklin was a student at Harvard Business School studying for his MBA. As part of the course they had to do calculations on case studies that could be time consuming and tedious. He daydreamed of a calculator that had a big head-up display like a fighter plane and a mouse to move the calculator around on the display so that he could punch in a few numbers or do some calculations. By the summer, while riding his bike, he decided he wanted to pursue this idea and create a real product to sell after he graduated.1
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is: ‘The computer is down.’
Norman Ralph Augustine
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Williams, J.B. (2017). Computers Take Over the Workplace. In: The Electronics Revolution. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49088-5_18
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