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...
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on the metaphor of a lifeboat Lifeboat Associates, a software distributor and magazine publisher in the 1970s and 1980s Lifeboat Distribution, an international...
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with one another. Lifeboat Associates Software Bus-80 aka SB-80, a version of CP/M-80 for 8080/Z80 8-bit computers Lifeboat Associates Software Bus-86 aka...
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The Lattice C Compiler was released in June 1982 by Lifeboat Associates and was the first[citation needed] C compiler for the IBM Personal Computer. The...
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1995. In June 1986, Lifeboat Associates was acquired by Voyager Software Corp. By 1988, Voyager was a three-division company; Lifeboat was the software distributor...
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co-founders. Bunnell and Currie created the magazine's business plan at Lifeboat Associates in New York which included, in addition to PC Magazine, explicit...
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later on MS-DOS computers. T/Maker was originally distributed by Lifeboat Associates of New York. T/Maker took a different approach to most other spreadsheets:...
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licensed or released versions of MS-DOS under different names like Lifeboat Associates "Software Bus 86" a.k.a. SB-DOS, COMPAQ-DOS, NCR-DOS or Z-DOS before...
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guest week at Microsoft in May 1979. The final product was shown at Lifeboat Associates' booth stand at the National Computer Conference in New York on June...
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Confusion at the Heart of IBM Microcomputer, InfoWorld, October 5, 1981 Lifeboat will support MS-DOS, InfoWorld, November 2, 1981 Northeast Computer Show...
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