Industry Software Founded 1979 | Products VisiCalc, TK/Solver Type of business Private | |
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Key people Co-founders Dan Bricklin, Bob Frankston Headquarters Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States Founders Bob Frankston, Dan Bricklin | ||
Software Arts was a software company founded by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston in 1979 to develop VisiCalc, 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.
By early 1984 InfoWorld estimated that Software Arts was the world's 13th-largest microcomputer-software company, with $12 million in 1983 sales. It was bought by Lotus in 1985.
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