Company type | Private |
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Industry | Software |
Founded | 1979 |
Headquarters | Cambridge, Massachusetts, Newton, Massachusetts |
Key people | Co-founders Dan Bricklin, Bob Frankston |
Products | VisiCalc, TK/Solver, Spotlight |
Software Arts was a software company founded by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston in 1979 [1] to develop VisiCalc, which was published by a separate company, Personal Software Inc., later named VisiCorp.
Software Arts also developed TK!Solver, [2] a numeric equation solving system originally developed by Milos Konopasek, and Spotlight, "a desktop organizer for the I.B.M. Personal Computer." [2]
By early 1984 InfoWorld estimated that Software Arts was the world's 13th-largest microcomputer-software company, with $12 million in 1983 sales. [3] It was bought by Lotus in 1985. [4]