RealData.com
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Real Estate Investment and Development Software, RealData, Inc.
Description
In 1980, real estate investor Frank Gallinelli needed to negotiate the purchase of a commercial building in Connecticut. He had recently acquired something completely new to the business world: a personal computer. Using that computer along with an early spreadsheet program called SuperCalc he built an income-and-expense statement and cash flow and resale projection modeled after the CCIM approach to income-property analysis. He closed the deal but perhaps more importantly he attracted the interest of colleagues, most of whom asked, “How did you do that?” Thus was born in 1981 one of the earliest personal computer software companies still in business, RealData.
We released our first commercial software application, Real Estate Overlays for SuperCalc, in 1982. That program, now improved over numerous generations and called Real Estate Investment Analysis, Standard Edition, remains the company’s bestseller.
Back when the program was first released, the personal computer industry was chaotic to say the least. Computers had no hard drives and virtually every manufacturer used a proprietary floppy-disk format. In order to ship a copy of its software, we first had to take it to a local tech shop to have it copied onto a disk readable by a Northstar, SuperBrain, Osborne or other in the panoply of incompatible formats.
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