History
Origin was first created for use solely with microcalorimeters manufactured by MicroCal Inc. (A Riverside Partners company acquired by GE Healthcare in 2008) The software was used to graph the instruments data, and perform nonlinear curve fitting and parameter calculation.
The software was first published for the public in 1992 by Microcal Software, which later was renamed to OriginLab Corporation, located in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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