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Visicorp




It was founded in 1976 by Dan Fylstra and Peter R. Jennings as Personal Software , and first published Jennings' Microchess program for the MOS Technology KIM-1 computer, and later Commodore PET and Apple II versions. It later published a wider variety of games and some applications programs. In 1979 it released VisiCalc, which would be so successful that in 1982 the company was renamed "VisiCorp".

  • VisiCalc was the first electronic Spreadsheet for personal computers, developed by Software Arts and published by VisiCorp.

  • VisiOn was the first GUI for the IBM PC.


Early alumni of this company included Ed Esber who would later run Ashton-Tate , Bill Coleman who would found BEA Systems , Mitch Kapor founder of Lotus Software and the Electronic Frontier Foundation , Rich Melmon who would co-found Electronic Arts and Brad Templeton who would found early dot-com Clarinet (company) .

VisiCorp was sold to Paladin Software after a legal feud between Software Arts and VisiCorp.


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