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.
[6] Lifeboat Associates successfully combined many roles, including publisher and distributor, and actively solicited authors for software products that met its standards.
[7][8] The company distributed T/Maker (written by Peter Roizen), one of the first spreadsheet programs designed for the personal computer user, which went a step beyond the similar VisiCalc program by offering text-processing capability,[9] and The Boss Financial Accounting System (written by John Burns), a $2495 package for CP/M users.
[10][11] In addition Lifeboat Associates started collecting and distributing user-written "free" software, initially for the CP/M operating system.
In 1988, Voyager acquired Corsoft Inc., a corporate reseller founded in 1983, and combined it with the operations of the Programmer's Paradise catalog and Lifeboat Associates, both of which marketed technical software for microcomputers.