VisiCorp
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VisiCorp was an early personal computer software publisher. Its most famous products are Visi On and VisiCalc.
It was founded in 1976 by Dan Fylstra and Peter R. Jennings as Personal Software, and first published Jenning's 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 renamed "VisiCorp".
Early Personal Software/VisiCorp alumni 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 Pallidan Software after a legal feud between Software Arts (the author) and VisiCalc and VisiCorp.
- VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet, developed by Software Arts and published by VisiCorp.
- VisiOn was the first GUI for the IBM PC.
[edit] External links
- VisiCorp - VisiCorp information on Ed Esber's official website
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