Cyphernetics Corporation was a commercial timesharing company founded in March 1969 and based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.[1] The company had a sales offices in most major American cities and many international locations, providing communications and technical support for clients.[2]
As was the case with a number of commercial timesharing operators in the 1970s, Cyphernetics utilized the DECsystem-10 computer systems from Digital Equipment Corporation.[3] Cyphernetics developed many products that were well ahead of their time, and whose concepts are contained in many of the most important PC applications, even today. Cyphernetics had an email system (called UTI:MEMO) in the early 1970s, as well as word processing (Cyphertext),[4] spreadsheets (Cyphertab),[5] project management, and