Software distributor and magazine publisher in the 1970s and 1980s
Lifeboat Associates
Industry
Software
Founded
1976/77
Headquarters
New York City
Key people
Larry Alkoff, Tony Gold
Products
T/Maker, The Boss Financial Accounting System
Lifeboat Associates was a New York City company that was one of the largest microcomputer software distributors in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Lifeboat acted as an independent software broker marketing software to major hardware vendors such as Xerox, HP and Altos. As such Lifeboat Associates was instrumental in the founding of Autodesk[1] and also financed the creation of PC Magazine.
LifeboatAssociates was a New York City company that was one of the largest microcomputer software distributors in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Lifeboat...
on the metaphor of a lifeboatLifeboatAssociates, a software distributor and magazine publisher in the 1970s and 1980s Lifeboat Distribution, an international...
with one another. LifeboatAssociates Software Bus-80 aka SB-80, a version of CP/M-80 for 8080/Z80 8-bit computers LifeboatAssociates Software Bus-86 aka...
The Lattice C Compiler was released in June 1982 by LifeboatAssociates and was the first[citation needed] C compiler for the IBM Personal Computer. The...
to Programmer's Paradise, Inc. and at that time, changed LifeboatAssociates' name to Lifeboat Distribution. In July 1995, Programmer's Paradise completed...
co-founders. Bunnell and Currie created the magazine's business plan at LifeboatAssociates in New York which included, in addition to PC Magazine, explicit...
guest week at Microsoft in May 1979. The final product was shown at LifeboatAssociates' booth stand at the National Computer Conference in New York on June...
Intel. Retrieved 2018-03-12. "KAI C++ - Standard Compliance". Kuck & Associates, Inc. Archived from the original on 2001-03-05. Retrieved 2018-03-12....
Confusion at the Heart of IBM Microcomputer, InfoWorld, October 5, 1981 Lifeboat will support MS-DOS, InfoWorld, November 2, 1981 Northeast Computer Show...
ship was equipped with a total of only 20 lifeboats. Fourteen were regular lifeboats, two were cutter lifeboats, and four were collapsible and proved difficult...
Associates. pp. 124–126. The Diaries of Sir Ernest Satow, 1906-1911 - Page 271 "BBC Seven Wonders". Retrieved 19 June 2021. "RNLI: Clovelly lifeboat station"...
Phillips escorted the pirates to a lifeboat to show them how to operate it, but then the pirates fled in the lifeboat with Phillips as a hostage. On 8 April...
attract help as the passengers were put into lifeboats. In accordance with existing practice, the Titanic's lifeboat system was designed to ferry passengers...
was a $880 spreadsheet generator similar to the T/Maker product by LifeboatAssociates, but ran on the version of the Pick operating system found on Microdata...
T/Maker and sold the first version through software distributor LifeboatAssociates of New York. In 1983 he co-founded T/Maker Company (with his sister...
Following high school, Spano began working as a receptionist at LifeboatAssociates, an early microcomputer software publisher company, where she was...
leave the lifeboat and return to the stricken Costa Concordia. De Falco did not believe Schettino's explanation of how he "fell" into the lifeboat, or his...
Anstruther Lifeboat Station is a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) station located in the town of Anstruther, Fife. The station has been in operation...
Smith ordered the lifeboats to be loaded and lowered under the orders women and children first. The first lifeboat launched was Lifeboat 7 on the starboard...
ends at Lochend (Bona Lighthouse) and Fort Augustus. There is an RNLI lifeboat station on the northern shore near Drumnadrochit, which has been operational...
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