Software Arts was a software company founded by
Dan Bricklin
Daniel Singer Bricklin (born July 16, 1951) is an American businessman and engineer who is the co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. He also founded Software Garden, Inc., of which he is currently president, and T ...
and
Bob Frankston
Robert M. Frankston (born June 14, 1949) is an American software engineer and businessman who co-created, with Dan Bricklin, the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. Frankston is also the co-founder of Software Arts.
Early life and education
Franksto ...
in 1979
to develop
VisiCalc
VisiCalc (for "visible calculator") is the first spreadsheet computer program for personal computers, originally released for Apple II by VisiCorp on 17 October 1979. It is often considered the application that turned the microcomputer from a hob ...
, which was published by a separate company,
Personal Software Inc., later named VisiCorp.
Software Arts also developed
TK!Solver,
a numeric equation solving system originally developed by
Milos Konopasek, and ''Spotlight'', "a desktop organizer for the I.B.M. Personal Computer."
[
By early 1984 ''InfoWorld'' estimated that Software Arts was the world's 13th-largest microcomputer-software company, with $12 million in 1983 sales.]
References
External links
Software Arts and VisiCalc
by Dan Bricklin
Defunct computer companies based in Massachusetts
Software companies established in 1979
Software companies disestablished in 1985
1979 establishments in Massachusetts
1985 disestablishments in Massachusetts
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