The Digital Antiquarian Volume 3: 1981

The Digital Antiquarian #3

by Jimmy Maher

This is volume 3 of a series of ebooks collecting the articles from Jimmy Maher's Digital Antiquarian blog, an ongoing history of interactive entertainment. This volume covers the historical year 1981.

Genres: Games, History

220 pages, ebook

First published December 23, 2015

Reviews

[Kalin · Rating 3 out of 5]

:) "Sex Comes to the Micros" + Softporn

:) from "Infocom: Going It Alone":

Just as Microsoft was also doing at this time, PS began to reshape themselves, leaving behind their hacker and hobbyist roots to focus on the exploding market for VisiCalc and other business software. They began doing in-house development for the first time, rolling out a whole line of programs to capitalize on the VisiCalc name: VisiDex, VisiPlot, VisiTrend, VisiTerm, VisiFile. The following year PS would complete their Visification by renaming themselves VisiCorp, en route to disappearing up their own VisiBum in one of the more spectacular flameouts in software history.