Interface Technologies Corporation
A company formed in January 1984 by Bob Warfield that developed and sold a Modula-2 compiler and environment for DOS called ITC STS-XP (also known as M2SDS), but with sales of that being rather slack, introduced an integrated spreadsheet, word processor and database called Farsight that sold reasonably well, and when the industry focused on the spreadsheet capability of the program they developed that into Surpass, a Lotus 1-2-3 compatible spreadsheet.
The company was taken over by Borland in January 1988 and they closed down the development tools business but later released Surpass under the Quattro Pro name.
The company had a few venture capital investors that were known from the early days of microcomputing such as Seymour I. Rubinstein (ex-MicroPro) but there is no indication that any of them had an active role in the company except as board members.
Known products
- Farsight - Integrated software/Spreadsheet
- ITC STS-XP - Modula-2 development system.
- Surpass - Spreadsheet.
Links
- Robert W. Warfield: The New Interface Technology - Byte magazine Vol 8 (1983), issue 12, page 218.
Personnel
- Robert W. "Bob" Warfield - CEO (Later with Borland)