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Lifeboat Associates: Companies & Products

Lifeboat Associates, Inc., 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 and…

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Lifeboat Associates topic overview

The analysis highlights Companies and Products as prominent areas in the source structure around Lifeboat Associates.

Related topics
22
Source areas
2
Connected nodes
24
Extracted relationships
26
Related term clusters
14
Bridge connections
24

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 16 topics
Products · 6 topics

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Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Founded
1976/77
Industry
Software
Headquarters
New York City
Key people
Larry Alkoff, Tony Gold
Products
T/Maker, The Boss Financial Accounting System

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Lifeboat Associates
4Microcomputer · Altos Computer Systems · Autodesk
6T/Maker · Peter Roizen · VisiCalc
3Mailing list · Hewlett-Packard · Xerox

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Overview

Products

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How Lifeboat Associates connects Entity context

The extracted context around Lifeboat Associates shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Lifeboat Associates → California, CP/M, England, France, Germany, Hewlett-Packard, InfoWorld, Japan, Larry Alkoff, Lifeboat, Oakland, PC Magazine, Proprietary, Switzerland, Tony Gold, Xerox Another extracted example is Lifeboat Associates → 1976/77. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Lifeboat Associates

Top relations

related to overview · 16
Lifeboat Associates → California, CP/M, England, France, Germany, Hewlett-Packard, InfoWorld, Japan, Larry Alkoff, Lifeboat, Oakland, PC Magazine, Proprietary, Switzerland, Tony Gold, Xerox
Founded · 1
Lifeboat Associates → 1976/77
Headquarters · 1
Lifeboat Associates → New York City
Industry · 1
Lifeboat Associates → Software
Key people · 1
Lifeboat Associates → Larry Alkoff, Tony Gold
Products · 1
Lifeboat Associates → T/Maker, The Boss Financial Accounting System

Important terminology

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Important terminology

software lifeboat inc associates paradise one new products cp also accounting system programs voyager programmer's company xerox founded maker boss

Lifeboat Associates relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 26 structured relationships around Lifeboat Associates. Examples in this analysis include Lifeboat Associates → Founded → 1976/77 and Lifeboat Associates → Headquarters → New York City. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Lifeboat AssociatesFounded1976/771.00infobox
Lifeboat AssociatesHeadquartersNew York City1.00infobox
Lifeboat AssociatesIndustrySoftware1.00infobox
Lifeboat AssociatesKey peopleLarry Alkoff, Tony Gold1.00infobox
Lifeboat AssociatesProductsT/Maker, The Boss Financial Accounting System1.00infobox
Xeroxinstance ofLifeboat acted as an independent software broker marketing software to major hardware vendors0.80text
HPinstance ofLifeboat acted as an independent software broker marketing software to major hardware vendors0.80text
Altosinstance ofLifeboat acted as an independent software broker marketing software to major hardware vendors0.80text
Hewlett-Packardinstance ofcompanies0.80text
Xerox paid it to compile software catalogs included with computersinstance ofcompanies0.80text
Lifeboat Associatesrelated to overviewLifeboat0.60section
Lifeboat Associatesrelated to overviewLarry Alkoff0.60section

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Lifeboat Associates bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Software, Lifeboat and Inc. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Lifeboat Associates
    • Software
    • Lifeboat
    • Inc
    • New
    • Products
    • Voyager
    • Cp
    • City
    • Founded
    • Largest
    • Magazine
    • Marketed
  • lifeboat associates
    • Software
    • Lifeboat
    • Inc
    • Also
    • New
    • Products
    • Voyager
    • Cp
    • City
    • Founded
    • Largest
    • Magazine
  • lifeboat distribution
    • Software
    • New
    • Products
    • Voyager
    • Cp
    • City
    • Founded
    • Largest
    • Magazine
    • Marketed
    • Microcomputer
    • Operations
  • the boss
    • Financial
    • Maker
    • Accounting
    • System
    • Spreadsheet
    • Programs
    • Cp
    • Gold
    • Larry
    • One
    • Tony
    • City
  • cp/m
    • Programs
    • System
    • Spreadsheet
    • Financial
    • Maker
    • Software
    • One
    • Lifeboat
    • Largest
    • Magazine
    • Marketed
    • Microcomputer
  • cp/m-80
    • Programs
    • System
    • Spreadsheet
    • Financial
    • Maker
    • Software
    • One
    • Lifeboat
    • Largest
    • Magazine
    • Marketed
    • Microcomputer
  • t/maker
    • Boss
    • Financial
    • Accounting
    • System
    • Spreadsheet
    • Programs
    • Cp
    • One
    • Tony
    • York
    • New
    • Products
  • microcomputer
    • Magazine
    • Marketed
    • Pc
    • York
    • New
    • Programs
    • Cp
    • One
    • Software

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Lifeboat Associates, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Lifeboat Associates with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Lifeboat Associates — Overview · splits 8 ⟂ 17
Lifeboat Associates — Products · splits 18 ⟂ 7

Map overview Semantic statistics

Lifeboat Associates

Nodes25
Edges24
Triples26
Avg. degree1.92
Density0.08
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Lifeboat Associates to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Companies & Products, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Lifeboat Associates · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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