PicoSpan

PicoSpan
Developer(s)Marcus D. Watts
Initial release1983
Written inC
Operating systemUnix
Available inEnglish
TypeBBS
LicenseCommercial Proprietary software

PicoSpan was a popular computer conferencing tool written by Marcus D. Watts for the Altos 68000. It was written in 1983 for M-Net, which was owned and operated by Mike Myers. Sometime in 1984, Marcus's employer, an Ann Arbor company called Network Technologies International (NETI), purchased the rights for PicoSpan planning to develop it into a commercial product called E-Forum.