The first version of the program was released in April 1989 and was distributed by ISTARI bvba, Ghent, Belgium.

In January 1992, version 2.3 of the program was licensed to Atari Corp., who released Dutch and French translations.

Today, 3D-Calc software is Freeware ("Public domain without source code") and can be downloaded freely.

[1] In 1992–1993, it was ported to MS-DOS to serve as the basis of a new statistics software package MedCalc.

3D Calc offers a GEM based user interface with icons, menus and function keys.