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== Legacy == VisiCalc is one of the earliest examples of [[Interface metaphor|metaphor-driven user interface design]], due to its resemblance with paper spreadsheets. This metaphor made the program comprehensible and familiar to accountants, economists, and bookkeepers who were not used to using computers, and VisiCalc's release marked the point where "personal computers crossed the line from a hobbyist obsession to a compelling tool". Compared to paper spreadsheets, VisiCalc freed users to change numbers without having to recalculate the whole spreadsheet by hand, which, according to [[Steven Levy]], "changed the perception of a spreadsheet from a document of hard costs into a modeling tool by which one tested business scenarios".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Levy |first=Steven |url= |title=Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything |date=June 2000 |publisher=Penguin Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-14-029177-3 |pages=68β69 |language=en |author-link=Steven Levy}}</ref>
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