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Aug 15, 2024 41 min

Ovation

from The Vaporware Tales Hosted by Public Forum Productions

The early 1980s saw the beginning of the home computer boom. The Apple II was dominating the market thanks to VisaCalc, the first spreadsheet computer program. Lotus 1 2 3 came in and started to challenge VisaCalc. Enter Ovation technologies and their true business software killer simply called Ovation. The problem is Ovation never existed. It was a con. How could this have happened. Join RD as he pieces together the story of Ovation and what their failure meant to the future of technological innovation. Download the episode for free.

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