---
title: "Softsync, Inc."
id: 11319
type: "company"
slug: "softsync"
url: "http://localhost/company/softsync/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/company/softsync.md"
published_at: "2019-06-19T14:24:39+00:00"
modified_at: "2024-01-14T10:39:58+00:00"
author: "David Anderson"
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excerpt: "Founded in March 1981 by Sue Currier to market programs for the ZX80 written by a friend, Softsync was a major software publisher. Started with only $1,000, the company grossed over $1 million by 1983. Softsync offering some of the first programs in the U.S. for the ZX80 that didn't come from Sinclair. At one…"
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address: "New York, NY 10156"
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archiveorg_url: "https://archive.org/details/softsync"
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    url: "http://localhost/product/the-financial-manager-and-record-keeper/"
  - id: 14484
    title: "Uncle Clive T-shirt"
    type: "product"
    url: "http://localhost/product/uncle-clive-t-shirt/"
  - id: 22373
    title: "Voice Chess"
    type: "product"
    url: "http://localhost/product/voice-chess/"
  - id: 14552
    title: "Wall Busters"
    type: "product"
    url: "http://localhost/product/wall-busters/"
  - id: 26077
    title: "Word Cross"
    type: "product"
    url: "http://localhost/product/word-cross/"
  - id: 26078
    title: "Word Play I"
    type: "product"
    url: "http://localhost/product/word-play-i/"
  - id: 26079
    title: "Word Play II"
    type: "product"
    url: "http://localhost/product/word-play-ii/"
  - id: 14685
    title: "Zeus Assembler"
    type: "product"
    url: "http://localhost/product/zeus-assembler/"
  - id: 14705
    title: "ZX Chess I"
    type: "product"
    url: "http://localhost/product/zx-chess-i/"
  - id: 14707
    title: "ZX Chess II"
    type: "product"
    url: "http://localhost/product/zx-chess-ii/"
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Founded in March 1981 by [Sue Currier](http://localhost/indiv/sue-currier/) to market programs for the ZX80 written by a friend, Softsync was a major software publisher. Started with only $1,000, the company grossed over $1 million by 1983.

Softsync offering some of the first programs in the U.S. for the ZX80 that didn’t come from Sinclair. At one point, they employed nine people full-time and several part-time programmers.

In addition to selling software developed by their own programmers, they also licensed software from the United Kingdom. Many independent programmers sent their software to Softsync in hopes the company would distribute the programs. Though some were “very bad, some are quite good, and we have outside programmers help the authors prepare them for distribution,” said Currier.

Timex distributed a number of programs originally developed or licensed by Softsync.

Softsync shifted to publishing IBM PC and Macintosh software in the mid-1980s. They were acquired by Bloc Development Corp. in 1990.