Editing Dan Bricklin (section)

===Software Arts===

In 1979, Bricklin and Frankston founded Software Arts, Inc., and began selling VisiCalc, via a separate company named [[VisiCorp]]. Along with Frankston, Bricklin started writing versions of the program for the Tandy TRS-80, Commodore PET and the Atari 800. Soon after its launch, VisiCalc became a fast seller at $100.<ref name="EI" /><ref name="Inventors" />

Software Arts also published [[TK/Solver]]<ref>a numeric equation solving system</ref> and Spotlight, a desktop organizer for the IBM Personal Computer."<ref name="TK2.NYT">{{Cite news |last=David E. Sanger |date=April 9, 1985 |title=Lotus Set to Acquire Software Arts |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/09/business/lotus-set-to-acquire-software-arts.html}}</ref>

Bricklin was awarded the [[Grace Murray Hopper Award]] in 1981 for VisiCalc. Bricklin could not patent VisiCalc, since software inventions were not eligible for patent protection at the time.

Bricklin was chairman of Software Arts until 1985, the year that Software Arts was acquired by [[Lotus Development Corporation|Lotus]].<ref name=TK2.NYT/> He left and founded Software Garden.