Find related topics. | Discover entities. | See connections. | Build a topical map.
Building topical map: Starting…
Sorcim: History, Companies, Products & Art
Sorcim Corporation was an early start-up company in Silicon Valley, founded in June 1980 by Richard Frank, Paul McQuesten, Martin Herbach, Anil Lakhwara, and Steve Jasik - all former Control Data Corporation employees working in the Language Group in Sunnyvale, CA. Jasik left company early on, to develop the MacNosy product for the Macintosh.
Use the mouse wheel or two fingers (on touchscreens) to zoom in and out of the map.
More settings
Sorcim topic overview
The analysis highlights History, Companies, Products and Art as prominent areas in the source structure around Sorcim.
Related topics
72
Source areas
8
Connected nodes
80
Extracted relationships
104
Concept neighborhoods
23
Bridge connections
80
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.
Early history · 16 topics
New management establishes future directions · 14 topics
The birth of SuperCalc · 13 topics
Additional financing · 10 topics
Overview · 8 topics
Executive restructuring · 6 topics
The company makes plans to move beyond CP/M · 3 topics
SuperCalc3 porting sales · 2 topics
Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
Founded
June 1980 (1980-06)
Founders
Richard Frank · Paul McQuesten · Martin Herbach · Anil Lakhwara · Steve Jasik
Industry
Software
Defunct
1984
Fate
acquired by Computer Associates in 1985
Type
Private
Explore all related topics Closing gaps
A structured outline of related entities, concepts and subtopics. Open any item to build a new map centered on it.
Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.
Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.
How Sorcim connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around Sorcim shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Sorcim → Alan Cooper, Apple IIc, AT, But, By, Compaq, DOS, IBM, In, Newly, Non-standard, Osborne, Pascal/M, Paul McQuesten's SuperCalc3, Revenues, SuperCalc3, SuperProject, SuperWriter, The, These Another extracted example is Sorcim → Adam, Adam Osborne, Adam Osborne's, April, Bill Godbout, CHILL, CP/M BIOS, Fall, Gary Balleisen, His, In, Lee Felsenstein, Osborne, Osborne BIOS, Richard Frank, Siemens, SuperCalc, The, This, VisiCalc. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
Sorcim
Top relations
related to Additional financing· 23
Sorcim → Alan Cooper, Apple IIc, AT, But, By, Compaq, DOS, IBM, In, Newly, Non-standard, Osborne, Pascal/M, Paul McQuesten's SuperCalc3, Revenues, SuperCalc3, SuperProject, SuperWriter, The, These
related to The birth of SuperCalc· 22
Sorcim → Adam, Adam Osborne, Adam Osborne's, April, Bill Godbout, CHILL, CP/M BIOS, Fall, Gary Balleisen, His, In, Lee Felsenstein, Osborne, Osborne BIOS, Richard Frank, Siemens, SuperCalc, The, This, VisiCalc
related to history· 21
Sorcim → ACT, Atari, Bill, Bill Godbout, Commodore PET, CP/M, Digicom, Friday, Godbout, Godbout S100, IBM PC, In, Intel, MS-DOS, Pascal/M, Paul, Richard, The, The Digicom, Z8000
Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 104 structured relationships around Sorcim. Examples in this analysis include Sorcim → Defunct → 1984 and Sorcim → Fate → acquired by Computer Associates in 1985. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
Subject
Predicate
Object
Confidence
Src
Sorcim
Defunct
1984
1.00
infobox
Sorcim
Fate
acquired by Computer Associates in 1985
1.00
infobox
Sorcim
Founded
June 1980 (1980-06)
1.00
infobox
Sorcim
Founders
Richard Frank
1.00
infobox
Sorcim
Founders
Paul McQuesten
1.00
infobox
Sorcim
Founders
Martin Herbach
1.00
infobox
Sorcim
Founders
Anil Lakhwara
1.00
infobox
Sorcim
Founders
Steve Jasik
1.00
infobox
Sorcim
Industry
Software
1.00
infobox
Sorcim
Type
Private
1.00
infobox
Sorcim
related to Additional financing
Throughout
0.60
section
Sorcim
related to Additional financing
Newly
0.60
section
No triples extracted yet.
Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods
Concept neighborhoods group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around Sorcim bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Citation, Computer and Needed. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
Sorcim
Citation
Computer
Needed
Pc
Cp
Supercalc3
Supercalc
One
Products
Sales
Time
1-2-3
sorcim
Citation
Computer
Needed
Pc
Cp
Supercalc3
Supercalc
One
Products
Sales
Time
1-2-3
osborne computer corporation
Computer
Osborne
Needed
Citation
Spreadsheet
Products
Supercalc
Sorcim
One
Time
Frank
Richard
computer associates
Osborne
Needed
Citation
Spreadsheet
Products
Sorcim
Supercalc
Time
Frank
Richard
Cp
One
cp/m
Products
Sorcim
Version
Supercalc3
Supercalc
Software
Early
Needed
Sales
New
Including
One
west coast computer faire
Osborne
Needed
Citation
Spreadsheet
Products
Sorcim
Supercalc
Time
Frank
Richard
Cp
One
the learning company
Early
Needed
Supercalc
Sales
Market
Citation
Sorcim
New
Management
Time
1-2-3
Cp
cp/m-86
Products
Sorcim
Version
Supercalc3
Supercalc
Software
Early
Needed
Sales
New
Including
One
Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For Sorcim, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Sorcim with Early history. 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
Sorcim — Early history· splits 64 ⟂ 17Sorcim — New management establishes future directions· splits 66 ⟂ 15Sorcim — The birth of SuperCalc· splits 67 ⟂ 14Sorcim — Additional financing· splits 70 ⟂ 11Sorcim — Overview· splits 72 ⟂ 9Sorcim — Executive restructuring· splits 74 ⟂ 7Sorcim — The company makes plans to move beyond CP/M· splits 77 ⟂ 4Sorcim — SuperCalc3 porting sales· splits 78 ⟂ 3
Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
Sorcim
Nodes81
Edges80
Triples104
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.024691
Components1
Source & methodology
TTTA analyzes the structure around Sorcim to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Companies, Products & Art, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
