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 Headquarters in 2004; these offices were, for the latter part of the company's history, in a converted basement in downtown Shreveport. | |
| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Software, Internet |
| Founded | 1981 |
| Defunct | 2016 |
| Headquarters | Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S. |
Key people | Jim Mangham, Founder Judi Mangham, Founder Al Vekovius, Founder, Past CEO John Beaird, Past CEO John Carmack, Former Game Programmer John Romero, Former Game Programmer & Designer Tom Hall, Former Game Designer Adrian Carmack, Former Artist Kevin Cloud, Former Artist and Manager Jay Wilbur, Former Manager |
| Products | Disk magazines, video games |
Softdisk was a software and Internet company based in Shreveport, Louisiana. Founded in 1981, its original products were disk magazines (which they termed "magazettes", for "magazine on diskette"). It was affiliated and partly owned by paper magazine Softalk at founding, but survived its demise.
The company has been known by a variety of names, including Softdisk Magazette, Softdisk Publishing, Softdisk, Inc., Softdisk Internet Services, Softdisk, L.L.C., and Magazines On Disk.
Softdisk is most well known for being the former workplace of several of the founders of id Software.