| Industry | Software |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1976/77 |
| Headquarters | New York City |
Key people | Larry Alkoff, Tony Gold |
| Products | T/Maker, The Boss Financial Accounting System |
Lifeboat Associates was a New York City company that was one of the largest microcomputer software distributors in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Lifeboat acted as an independent software broker marketing software to major hardware vendors such as Xerox, HP and Altos. As such Lifeboat Associates was instrumental in the founding of Autodesk[1] and also financed the creation of PC Magazine.